Y’all, I have another story of my misfortunes for your entertainment. My love life is about as dead as a dodo right now, and my mom has a very confusing take on it. On one hand. She wants me to live at the house till I’m thirty and not get married till then, and on the other, she wants her close friends daughters to get married. She tried to get my brother to marry Sue (not her real name) but he didn’t, then she tried to get me to marry Sue, and I said no. Then she tried to get my younger brother to marry Sue. Sue is older than all of us. Now Sue is married. She is now trying to get me to marry her younger sister Mary. I’ve told my mother no about seven times. She says to me, “but John, you just need to get to know her” (I’ve known her all my life) “but john, she’s very pretty!“ (she is, not my type) “but John, she’s very sweet!” (She is, but no) “John, maybe I just need to get y’all together so you can see how great she is!” (At this point, I put my foot down and told her absolutely not) My mom doesn’t get the reason why all of my siblings have said no. It’s her mother. Now my mother is very overbearing at times. It can be a bit much. Her friend, Sue and Mary’s mother, is very overbearing. Now my family was fairly conservative homeschooled types. Them, very much more so and her mother and my mother are best friends and talk all the time. I absolutely do not want to be caught between them. It would be a living nightmare. Imagine for a minute getting double teamed by two very conservative moms who get upset if you hold hands. It’s terrible.