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I am a very late bloomer when it relates to romantic relationships and marriage. I didn't get my first real girlfriend until I was 29. I am now 30 and will soon marry this same girl. Me and this girl are each other's first real relationship. I was her first kiss and everything. She is 27.

I will say my parents are separated. I have an estranged sister who is 29 who has also alienated my parents. My mom has been really hurt by this, and my sister is refusing to attend my wedding despite being invited. To me, snubbing me and my bride at my wedding is irreparable (this is a entirely different discussion). All in all, my immediate family has been torn apart for years now. My separated parents live different places, and my mom still lives around locally.

I am staying at my mom's boyfriend's house tonight (long story... we are evicting a troublesome, leftist, nasty old tenant at my home that rents the downstairs), and my mom walks into the room I am sleeping in and hugs me while crying. My mom is a little sad I am growing up and getting married. She is happy for me, but I think with all the family turmoil and me moving on (I am a mommy's boy), it is hard on her a little.

very common take I see at least on my social media algorithms. it's been my experience with my boomer parents (yeah they're old, they were literally grandparents by the time I was born). they were well off. left my two brothers and sister destitute and broke. didn't even get them a car to get to work in at 16-17 but forced them to get a job. almost like they were living in the 50s where making ice cream cones all day could pay enough to afford a new car. the funny part? when my brother ODd and my other brother was locked up in prison for selling drugs and my sister almost died from an obesity related stroke, they said it wasn't their responsibility. who said it was? a guilty conscience?