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[sakon76]

My parents are saying they'll pay for the reception. Well, my mother is saying my father will pay for the reception. But it amounts to the same thing, really.

Why?

I'm failing to understand this on some fundamental level. While they are my parents and I love them and I assume they love me, I am twenty-seven and well past the age where they should be paying for things for me. Furthermore, this isn't something trivial like picking up a couple pounds of peaches while we're at the grocery store. This is multiple thousands of dollars we're talking here. They're getting major rennovations to their townhouse. They can't afford this kind of money.

I think something in my brain was born broken, because I'm just not getting it.