Rant about my mother. DH and I were married at City Hall (couldn't afford a wedding at the time) and rent an apartment. My little brother in Oregon just bought a house and his wife's parents paid for their huge, black tie wedding earlier this year. My mother keeps going on and on about how proud she is that they have "done things right." She hates that we rent b/c it's "unstable" and doesn't consider my marriage "real" since we didn't have the big wedding. Ugh. This is really bothering me today.

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