How many of your wedding guests are still in your life?
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Thought about this recently, not out of self pity or sadness, more amazement about how dramatically life can change.
For a variety of reasons, and no doubt I am partly the cause, my stats are:
Wedding in Aug 2005
Day guests - 90
Evening quests - 50
Remain in touch with:
My daughter (now 19)
My sister
My closest friend
For now, my soon-to-be ex
This just occurred to me recently as I drove past the wedding venue.
For a variety of reasons, and no doubt I am partly the cause, my stats are:
Wedding in Aug 2005
Day guests - 90
Evening quests - 50
Remain in touch with:
My daughter (now 19)
My sister
My closest friend
For now, my soon-to-be ex
This just occurred to me recently as I drove past the wedding venue.
Well it wasn’t intended to be a depressing thread, but you’re the second poster to make that point so that’s obviously how it’s worked out!
Personally,, I feel really aligned to the philosophy that life is about letting go.
It’s not that I feel I have lost anything, more that it’s just amazing how much things have shifted in 19 years.
As long as my kids want to be in my life (they do), that’s a win.
What I find remarkable is the extreme churn in social circles.
Maybe it’s just me :-)
Personally,, I feel really aligned to the philosophy that life is about letting go.
It’s not that I feel I have lost anything, more that it’s just amazing how much things have shifted in 19 years.
As long as my kids want to be in my life (they do), that’s a win.
What I find remarkable is the extreme churn in social circles.
Maybe it’s just me :-)
ThingsBehindTheSun said:
I got married in 2004 and there were about 100 people there. Out of all the people who were there, the following are the only people I have seen in the last ten years or so.
Ex wife
My parents
My brother and his wife
I see my two uncles (Mother's brothers) and one auntie maybe once every couple of years.
I would say maybe ten are dead and I am not in contact with a single friend or work colleague who I knew at the time. Out of my actual relations, I haven't seen a single relation on my fathers side in ten plus years, seeing them will be a once in a decade occurrence.
Weird how you just lose touch with people who used to be a major part of your life without you realising it is even happening.
Oh well, what a waste of money buying them all dinner that day was!
You are clearly my spirit animal :-)Ex wife
My parents
My brother and his wife
I see my two uncles (Mother's brothers) and one auntie maybe once every couple of years.
I would say maybe ten are dead and I am not in contact with a single friend or work colleague who I knew at the time. Out of my actual relations, I haven't seen a single relation on my fathers side in ten plus years, seeing them will be a once in a decade occurrence.
Weird how you just lose touch with people who used to be a major part of your life without you realising it is even happening.
Oh well, what a waste of money buying them all dinner that day was!
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