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Way to be self-aware, dude.
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My uncles does not allow my aunt to go anywhere by herself, not even to visit her parents after her mother (my grandmother) had a heart attack and triple bypass surgery.
My uncle orders for her at restaurants. She can only have grilled chicken and steamed vegetables because he doesn't want her to get fat. He is extremely fat and orders whatever he wants. Then taunts her with it.
They hang out in Vegas all the time with their son and his girlfriends, LIKE THEY ARE PEERS.
My uncle still tries to control my cousin, who is my age (late 20s) and married. He calls her three times a day, every single day.
We (my parents and I) were once kicked out of their home at 3:00am because he had been stewing all night over a totally harmless joke that my stepdad had made. We lived four hours away.
I don't know what it is about this false sense of security that many people who live in gated communities seem to feel, but there is something terribly wrong with all of this.
02:18 PM
I know very little about it, but the super controlling factors you've mentioned are enough to see that all is not well in Denmark. The instance of ordering for her is a textbook example of abuse. Do you think your aunt needs help?
Apologies for any sensitive material. I just felt this needed to be pointed out.
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Alexis's relationship with her husband is truly my worst fears realized. He has an incredible amount of control over her and she leads this gilded-cage-like existence. Basically, he buys her expensive jewelry to placate her and in return, she's completely subservient. Moreover, every single thing she does is for his pleasure. All of her confessionals say something along the lines of "I go to the gym 6 days a week for 3 hours and never eat sugar because my husband doesn't want to worry about having a frumpy, old wife." It sickens me.
Simon is a total jackass, but at least Tamra is feisty enough to fight with him and she's honest about his controlling tendencies. Alexis just "yeses" everything her husband says.
12:34 PM
In any case, I'm beginning to see where all these Prop 8 voters came from.
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I loved Gretchen's line last week when she said something along the lines of: "They keep talking about the Bible and being a good Christian and leading a life without temptation, but Alexis shows up to lunch with these huge, fake boobs hanging out of the tightest dress. How is that modest and rejecting temptation? I don't get it." +1 for Gretchen.
Plus, Slade's a huge dirtball, but he and Gretchen will break up, so I don't worry about their relationship. Plus, she's bubbly and "hot", so she'll find another guy in 10 minutes.
01:15 PM
Sidenote: you guys should really be reading the housewives blogs.
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And wow. Lynn looks like a different person. Not so much younger, just different.
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Tamra and Ryan have a strange relationship, too. Remember when they all went clubbing together?
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So yes, I don't consider women, in 2009, who make it their lives goal to be financially dependent on a man to be feminists. Not saying that at times circumstances conspire to where you cannot support yourself without assistance but that is simply not the situation these women are in and have aspired to.
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They were only looking at Denmark and only looking at 15 years of deaths. Maybe Danish culture has an influence on who marries younger or maybe people born in the 1910s-1930s had different marriage patterns than contemporary Danes or Americans. Also, the headline seems misleading-the article says their risk of premature death is cut, not that they live longer. If the average Danish man dies at 80, that means men with younger wives are less likely to die before 80 not that they are more likely to live beyond 80.
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Bummer. Maybe I should find an article saying I'm going to die even sooner because we're having a baby.
*grumpy*
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