Anonymous wrote:Back when my sister and I were in our 20s, during a period when my sister didn't happen to be seeing anyone, my mother asked me the following questions (on 3 separate occasions):
1. Since Sister didn't meet her husband in college, where will she meet him? [She seemed truly bewildered.]
2. Do you think Sister is a lesbian. She isn't married yet.
3. Aren't you worried that Sister will turn out like Single Favorite Aunt*?
*For the record, Single Favorite Aunt has never married, has a daughter she adopted, and seems to really love her fantastic life. One could do a lot worse than turn out like her.
In each case, I told my mother she needed to ask my sister those questions - I was not going to discuss her love life behind her back.
The funny thing is that my mother is a raging feminist hippie.
My mother used to refer to me, not jokingly, to family and friends as her spinster daughter. I got married when I was 29.