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💍💍💍This Week💍💍💍
Highlight: My spooky themed bridal shower (see video here) - complete with a skeleton in a black bowler hat proposing to a skeleton in a white veil and an “I’m Batty For You” photo wall (Andrew’s mom, Pam’s brilliant idea) - and the almost 100% sure feelings I have about changing the wedding theme to “elevated spooky.”
Lowlight: Me not having a well-developed enough plan to take advantage of the post-Halloween clearance sales for the spooky themed wedding! *womp womp*
I learned recently that there’s a European wedding tradition where the couple’s parents give them bread and salt. The bread symbolizes the sweet things, and the hope that the couple will always have enough. The salt is a reminder that difficulty will come and that the couple will have to overcome it together.
Though I know that there’s plenty of salt I can’t anticipate, there’s one big challenge that will always be a part of my marriage: having borderline personality disorder.
I’ve never shared this publicly before, but I have borderline personality disorder or BPD. You can look up the DSM definition of what this means, but I guess I think of it as a strong internal force - like, gravity - that tries to turn life into an isolating and drawn-out process of self-destruction. It turns the world into a place of extremes: hot and cold, black and white.
Worse than that, it draws others into its orbit.