Jen Hatmaker

[Anonymous]

I am confused. I am from New England, and I've never heard of a promise ceremony. Is this some sort of southern thing? What exactly is happening?🤔

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. I am from New England, and I've never heard of a promise ceremony. Is this some sort of southern thing? What exactly is happening?🤔

I'm guessing it is a sort of ceremony announcing you are "going steady" as they used to say back in the day. A promise ring is a declaration of monogamy, without a marriage, for example. I have seen it used when people are really too young to get engaged. For an older demographic, you would skip this and go to a wedding, but if you are not planning on getting married, you would might do something like this to make your relationship feel "official". I could see it being used for people who have good legal reasons not to get married. A committment ceremony of sorts.

I personally would find a long distance relationship with no eventual plan to move closer to each other a deal breaker, but each to their own, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. I am from New England, and I've never heard of a promise ceremony. Is this some sort of southern thing? What exactly is happening?🤔

Basically the low rent cousin ceremony of a legit wedding. This allows "T-dawg" to continue to string her along without any legal consequences or infringement on his game that he's got going on when she's not around. I personally wouldn't settle for this, but I also wouldn't be bragging about or professing my undying love for someone who can barely acknowledge my existence in public.

[Anonymous]

If someone refers to themselves as “T-Dawg”, you need to run away. Far, far away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. I am from New England, and I've never heard of a promise ceremony. Is this some sort of southern thing? What exactly is happening?🤔

I am in South Carolina and I claim NO PART OF WHATEVER THIS IS. We are not endorsing promise ceremonies.

[Anonymous]

TF is a promise ceremony? Where is that posted?

[Anonymous]

Embarrassing for a 50-year-old woman who self-proclaims to be “KATN”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. I am from New England, and I've never heard of a promise ceremony. Is this some sort of southern thing? What exactly is happening?🤔

I am in South Carolina and I claim NO PART OF WHATEVER THIS IS. We are not endorsing promise ceremonies.

I live about 30 miles from Jen and am a lifelong Texan. I have never heard of this and think it sounds childish AF.

If you're in a committed relationship but not getting married or living together, who else should care? Are they merging their "brands" - barf - and signing a binding agreement?

Is she getting a promise ring? Those used to mean engaged to be engaged for sweethearts too young for a real engagement but I didn't think anyone did that anymore, much less grownass adults. I thought she was a whole, healed, fierce woman who could buy her own jewelry.

[Anonymous]

Personal opinion: I CAN NOT listen to Leanne Morgan. That accent makes me want to throw things. Some of her stuff is funny, but I have to watch it on silent with captions. Just my personal experience.

Is it just me or does it look like Jen write her comments to Sydney so that they look authentic but are actually curated? "Your location is bananas at the foot of a river." "Remember that you have your bonus upgrade gift." "Sure is good that Tyler bought you that iphone." The conversation just seems like it is manufactured so it will look good when she posts screen shots of it.

[Anonymous]

Personal opinion: I CAN NOT listen to Leanne Morgan. That accent makes me want to throw things. Some of her stuff is funny, but I have to watch it on silent with captions. Just my personal experience

Agree. As a fellow Tennessean, a few years younger than her, I totally get where she is coming from, but her take that as a young kid people thought she was funny? No. Those people were just being polite.
She kind of reminds me of that gal from Grace Under Fire, but less tipsy.
She's not super annoying, like Heather Land.

[Anonymous]

Mean girls raise mean girls.

Thinking of all the times I’ve had sad dinners: after breakups, after putting my mom in hospice, finding out my dad died, after having to put my dog to sleep, when my baby was admitted to ICU. The kindness of strangers goes a long way, but all Jen did was praise her for a selfish comment about how great her own company is. I get that she’s young but l do hope kindness finds her in the moments she may need it. She just came off as sounding harsh - just like her mom

Ugh. I had some hope for Sydney but the PP is spot on. Mean girls raise mean girls. Jen hid it well for years from her audience, but she was and is a mean girl.

[Anonymous]

Sydney is an adult and agreed to have the photos posted. Unfortunately like a lot of young adults, they may not fully appreciate how immature and rude they come across online until it’s too late.

Poor Sydney is growing up with women who bray that "if you can't handle me at my worst, then you deserve me at my best" crap, instead of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." It's not rude, it's "authentic."
Lord help us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone refers to themselves as “T-Dawg”, you need to run away. Far, far away.

"This is my husband, T-Dawg."

Ranks right up there with "this is my husband, Crap Bag."

But T-Dawg was cool in 1992, right? So he's still cool, right? Blessed be the hammer pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Sydney is an adult and agreed to have the photos posted. Unfortunately like a lot of young adults, they may not fully appreciate how immature and rude they come across online until it’s too late.

Poor Sydney is growing up with women who bray that "if you can't handle me at my worst, then you deserve me at my best" crap, instead of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." It's not rude, it's "authentic."
Lord help us.

Someone needs to explain to those women that if they can't be handled at their worst, there are a million more mature, kinder women out there for that guy to choose from and he will and you'll end up alone and bitter.

[Anonymous]

It is all annoying AF. I was going to type a whole post about his nickname, his gross comments, him buying her kid a phone, but the first sentence sums it up.