I don’t think you should respond if you don’t want to change anything and her opinion doesn’t matter to you. Setting aside sibling baggage. You wrote this knowing the rest of the family probably wouldn’t appreciate it to various degrees based on past experience at the death of other family members being kept “low key” on this kind of thing - so it isn’t surprising that this is just the way you deciding to write any obit was going to go. That the sister who you think tends to be more out spoken generally is also the one who spoke up about it also shouldn’t be a surprise either. But I think it says a lot that your dad didn’t want it for his wife. It seems unlikely that he wanted it for himself and for ME, that would be the end of it no matter whether I agreed or not with him.

To be fair… are you fluent enough to know that’s what they said even if they did? Personally, I’m 100% that my husband’s cat has told me to flip off when I meow wrong at her. But also… what I’m fascinated by is that different cultures say animals make different sounds! Not every culture says the cow goes mooo, chicken goes cluck cluck, frog goes ribbit-ribbit. or that their onomatopoeias are the same either. Such as knock knock for example. This fascinates me for no profitable reason whatsoever. I makes me want to visit their places and find out if the their animals make different sounds than in other places. Sometimes they actually do!

Dh and I enjoyed Dr Slump. I stopped watching FlexCop after episode 10 iirc. Idk why. Bored? Fun fact. The ML in FlexCop is married with kid(s?) to the FL in Dr Slump irl. Queen of Divorce was fun. Now I’m watching Queen of Tears. And. Dadgum. It is. Today the 9th episode dropped and it’s the first one I didn’t need tissues for. So far it’s a fabulous show. You’ll cry and laugh and cry again. And it hasn’t had a slow moment yet. I’m watching the Taiwanese version of Fated to Love You to recover from watching the Queen of Tears episodes. FTLY is one of my fav kdramas and I’ve watched the Japanese and the Chinese versions. QoT is having a LOT of stunning cameos and Easter eggs from other dramas, namely Crash Landing on You. These two are the only things I’ve had a chance to watch lately.

Dh and I both loved this series and enjoyed season 2. Kim Beum is one of my favorite actors and he did his first ever cameo in a romcom last week for Wedding Impossible - he was the best thing about the entire show which I otherwise wouldn’t recommend. I’m currently watching Queen of Tears on Netflix. Bring your box of tissues and hang on for the emotional roller coaster. Excellent show so far.

I think it’s either Hulu or Prime that had season 3

No experience with that kind of x but otherwise - That is absolutely the accurate response in that situation and I’d totally have felt the same way. 100% Llama mama/wife over here.😆

I remember all the boardies mentioned so far. I miss their voices here.

Dadgum it. If I’m wrong someone point me the link to me bc every single thing I’m finding dead ends to no where. It’s a great program. I have first and second editions and wanted to go print the daily schedule. 😞 I keep thinking I need to get rid of soooo much curriculum instead of saving it years until the next kid can use it now that I’m down to my last 3 kids. But then I want to bulk buy everything too bc I just never know when another provider is going to bite the dust or just stop the particular program I loved.

This. Why do people keep acting like this part didn’t happen?! i’m 100% that if she had had her surgery and recovery done entirely via live streaming there’d still be people saying she was hiding and lying and what all else and that they had a right to that from her bc she’s famous or wealthy or royalty or a woman who should do it to “help” other women. It’s all BS though.

She tended to take that kind of mom role. And I too love her characters for it.

When the publicly available information is from the primary source? Sure. Otherwise it’s just gossip mongering. They did and hope they get their sued into closing for it. Sure. And yet also…. While she may or may not care about protecting a fairy tale image it’s more likely that same as anyone else - she simply has no desire to air her dirty laundry out to public ridicule. And that is her right too. Same as it should be for anyone else. I think in the big picture it doesn’t make one bit of difference. Frankly I think that’s BS. She has always advocated for mental health and family health and women’s health. And a huge part of that is women having the right and freedom to decide what is best for themselves and their family. They didn’t lie. They were not dishonest. They told the entire world more than any one person has a right to know at all. I doubt this will change that. Knowing someone else has stepped in crap doesn’t make anyone else happy about stepping in it. What would save thousands of lives of other mothers with young children is having the same access to medical care that the duchess has. Just hearing about some famous person doesn’t save anyone. Raising awareness about a problem is okay but pointless if it doesn’t supply any actual solution. You can have your opinion but what it’s based on wrt to KM is beyond me. She wasn’t hiding and lying. She was recovering and healing and probably circling the wagons to continue to do so. There’s absolutely nothing unethical about that. In fact - kudos to her for it and her family for supporting her in it. The closest you can get is that someone made the mistake of using a photoshopped image of her and the kids. A mistake for sure, but it’s not on par with hiding and lying. Then frankly that management at the London Clinic should be fired and blackballed from working at medical facilities. No one has said it’s a tragedy she didn’t get privacy. Frankly medical privacy is a joke everywhere. And that is a problem that needs to be addressed and probably never will be bc there’s more money in breaches than any laughable penalty for privacy failure. But as women and mothers and wives? Yeah. I feel for any woman who is going through what she is. And there’s millions. People want open and honest about the weather and how great the kids are doing. When it’s ugly they want to step far and wide of that pile of crap, not walk through it with someone. I’m blessed to have a few good people who have and would walk through it with me. Likely KM had told those who were walking through it with her and that’s all that matters for her and her family. This is the reality for most people in crisis. And that’s not protecting a fairy tale. It’s just people doing what they need to each day.

I think all parents are double concerned about their children’s job prospects bc 1) being poor generally restricts freedom and sucks and 2) the parents are also concerned that if their child needs help - the parent won’t be able to provide a safety net to do that. Letting a young adult make whatever decision they decide on with those facts in mind is not wrong or bad. It’s just reality. It’s rare in life that all of our mistakes are ours alone. And that’s not all wrong or bad either.

Because Inquiring Minds want to know! Anyone else remember those ADs?! It’s the blasted Pentaveret to blame for poor Kate. I know it is bc I read it in the Weekly World News, which has FACTS and over 10 million subscribers.

rarely was it all day. Except in cities. I would rephrase that to they had different pollution. Average families of the cities during early industrial times? Idk about that. I think the problem is different but still a problem. While back then the pollutants where easy to see what with the black smoke stacks and colored or weird smelling water - that we have managed to make things prettier doesn’t necessarily mean it’s less polluted. But the one thing I know to be fact is never question that things can indeed be worse.

Though honestly they mistake focus with entertained and end up with unreasonable expectations. Most teens and adults deeply focus best in 20 minute intervals. Maybe 30 minutes. But after that their focus starts to wain. So while they might continue to make the effort, they’d probably study better if they stopped after 20-30 minutes to do something else and then come back to it in 30 minutes.