Family boundaries and celebrations: Why exclusion from a dinner plan led to a difficult decision regarding a birthday event

obsessed with lineage and status. When he proposed eleven months after our first date, I said yes, shoving down the nagging feeling that I was entering a world that would never truly accept me.

The wedding was, naturally, the social event of the season. I planned much of it myself, unable to trust another planner with the most important day of my life.continue reading …