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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob C. View Post
    I'm hearing a lot of people telling you to give in to a woman who has proven that she deserves no such consideration. Wear the kilt to the wedding and the reception.

    People will walk all over you if you let them. Give Mom a loud and clear declaration that enough is enough.
    But then again remember that Bob has been in a graduate studies curmudgeon program for several years and is very close to earning his M.K.C.*




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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob C. View Post
    I'm hearing a lot of people telling you to give in to a woman who has proven that she deserves no such consideration. Wear the kilt to the wedding and the reception.

    People will walk all over you if you let them. Give Mom a loud and clear declaration that enough is enough.
    thats funny, see my New Years resolution was to stop taking crap from my family, and my wife's family. After my surgery, I really took it to heart.

    I may be more of an ***, but I'm the *** my wife married, and a lot more like the *** I was when she fell in love with me. (Being nice wore thin after a few years of her trying to instill that on me. )

    It started last xmas when her grandma made some comment about how we were trying to take the holidays from her, and that it was always the grandma's position to have xmas, when (being tired anyways) I pointed out to her (bluntly) that she is a great grandma, and there is nothing lef tin the tradition for her to get, and she could get over it.

    I'm waiting for the next time she pulls the 'get a job so my granddaughter can stay home' crap so I can use the 'in your day the women didn't open their mouths to the men folk' line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob C. View Post
    I'm hearing a lot of people telling you to give in to a woman who has proven that she deserves no such consideration. Wear the kilt to the wedding and the reception.

    People will walk all over you if you let them. Give Mom a loud and clear declaration that enough is enough.
    Or just step aside as they come crashing through, figure out what direction they're headed in, and go the other way. That's not cowardice, it's just a lot less aggravation.

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    I believe that for the wedding ceremony, he should dress as your mom wants him to dress, (Unless the two of you are planning on using her wedding to say you want nothing to do with her anymore.) For the Reception, well you have some choice there. You can dress in a Kilt because that is how you dress, or you can dress how you know your mother would like. I would suggest that you dress to make Her happy, and then let her know that you were very very very very very tempted to ruin her wedding like she ruined yours, but that you decided you would be a grown-up, and let her make her own decisions for her wedding.

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    Wait. She not only 86'ed the kilt but she also took over the music for your first dance as husband and wife?

    Wow. So how's her therapy going?

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    I'd wear the kilt.

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    If I had a family member who was that controlling at my wedding, I would simply not attend their wedding at all.
    Al...professional kilted curmudgeon.

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    I'm inclined to agree with Bob C. on this one.

    On the other hand you have to live with her and know all of the ins-and-outs leading up to this point. Knowing that, only you and your husband can really know how it will turn out and any long term effects that may occur.


    ....I sound kind of like a drug commercial.

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    I give you permission and blessing.

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    I would say it depends on the current relationship. Was this a one time event or has this type of behavior continued. Understand that if he wears the kilt, the relationship will only get worse. If you have a pretty good relationship, I would forget about wearing the kilt. If she has continued to attempt to control and manipulate things, I probably wouldn't go to the wedding.

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