I have a 'friend' who is getting on my nerves. I haven't heard from her in almost a month, but she called me today and left me a voicemail to "catch up". I called her back. Turns out she just wanted to crow about her daughter getting engaged. I was like "that's great, please tell her I said congratulations!" She couldn't shut up about it. She was telling me how the now fiance came to her and her husband last week and was asking for permission to ask the daughter to marry him, and how he had this ring and was going to take her somewhere in NY and ask her to marry him, but didn't want to do it in Central Park because "everyone does that and he knows she is special".
I know this sounds trite that this irritates me...but here's the rest of the story.
This woman's daughter is the same age as me (45). I have known her 2.5 years and she has been engaged 3 times during that time. She has been engaged many more times before that from what I have gathered. She goes and buys a big dress and crows about it all over the place each time, then it all goes to pot and no one speaks of it again. She is divorced and has a grown son, but they way they go on about it is like she is 20 and has never been married. She spends all her time on all these dating apps looking for older men with some money. This guy was her neighbor and doesn't have any money. Just recently her mom was asking me if my husband had any single friends at his work, because "his line of work makes good money".
This was after the daughter was supposedly in the relationship of a lifetime with now-fiance.
So now they will be planning the wedding of the century and pretending like she hasn't been engaged a million times before. I am sure she has a big huge ring and they will be trying to flash it all over the place. I'm just tired thinking about it, and they hypocrisy of it makes me ill. My marriage is very important to me. I have been married 27 years. Marriage means something to me, and it has nothing to do with a big ring, a white dress, or catching a spouse that makes a big salary. I really just want to cut this woman off so I don't get so mad that I tell her what I think, but unfortunately I do some work with her and can't cut her off completely.
Ok, end rant. I needed to get that off my chest though.