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Alina Porter and Caleb Hayes are planning their wedding ,
Anonymous
May 20
Scenario:Alina Porter and Caleb Hayes are planning their wedding, dealing with the stress of family drama and a tight deadline, and hoping that nothing goes wrong on their big day.
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I hear the catch in my voice and know that I’m close to losing it.
“Lina, you need to do this,” she says.
“I know that you have your reasons for not wanting to invite her, but I think you’ll regret it if you don’t.”
“Mom, I really can’t deal with this right now,” I say.
“I have a million other things to worry about, and I just can’t handle this on top of everything else.”
“I know that you’re busy,” she says.
“But this is important to your father and me.”
I feel the familiar wave of frustration and despair wash over me.
I’ve been dealing with this for months, and I thought that I’d finally gotten through to her, but I was wrong.
“I don’t want to talk about this anymore,” I say.
“Alina, you’re being unreasonable,” she says.
“You need to invite your grandmother to your wedding.”
I feel the tears welling up in my eyes, and I take a deep breath to try and calm myself down.
“Please, Mom,” I say.
“This isn’t something that I can do right now.
Can we please talk about it later?”
She’s silent for a moment, and my heart sinks.
I know that she’s not going to let this go.
“Fine,” she says after a moment.
“We’ll talk about it later.”
“I love you, Mom,” I say.
“I love you too,” she says.
I hang up the phone and let out a sigh of relief.
This whole situation has been a nightmare from the start, and I don’t know how much more of it I can take.
The truth is that I don’t have a good reason for not inviting her to the wedding.
The two of us haven’t spoken in years, but that’s not why I’m hesitant to ask her to come.
It’s just that the thought of seeing her again makes me feel sick to my stomach, and I don’t want to put myself through that.
It’s as simple as that.
At least, it should be.
Instead, it’s turned into a massive issue with my mom, and I don’t know how to fix it.
But right now, there are a million other things on my plate.
I’m knee-deep in wedding planning chaos, and it feels like there’s no end in sight.
With just two months until the big day, we’ve reached critical mass, and I’m struggling to keep everything together.
I thought that we had everything under control, but then our caterer canceled on us at the last minute, and I’ve been scrambling ever since to find a replacement that won’t break our budget.
If that wasn’t bad enough, our florist is being completely uncooperative when it comes to the flowers we want for the centerpieces, and don’t even get me started on the seating arrangements.
I love my fiancé-to-be more than anything in the world, but he can be completely clueless when it comes to some of the most basic aspects of wedding planning.
