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pippa April 8, 2024

Collins did say, 'What a day!', but he mostly said, 'It's been a day!'

pippa April 2, 2024

In my opinion, Lauren was one of the most real people ever on MAFS. She’s everything I wanted to be at her age, but didn’t have the confidence. Keep it up Lauren, you’re a gem!

pippa April 1, 2024

I have an absolute thing about the cleanliness or otherwise of hair. I think Jack’s hair is dirty, not conditioned. I like to see hair shining, and Jack’s hair looks like a grease pit.

pippa March 27, 2024

@jessiejay7, contrary to what appears to be popular opinion, it's my belief that most adopted children do 'luck out'. My sister and I certainly did with our wonderful adoptive parents, and our adopted son has a close relationship with my husband and I. He's 46 and has brought us immeasurable joy. And two gorgeous grandchildren.

pippa March 16, 2024

Just further evidence of the trend to live in a fantasy world rather than the real one. As King Lear said, 'That way madness lies.'

pippa March 14, 2024

I first read this article yesterday and have been thinking about it ever since. The article seems to presuppose that women don't want to help their partner through emotional problems. It appears to suggest that men should have it all together before beginning a relationship, because any emotional needs they may have will be an unfair imposition on their female partner.

I see one problem with this. Some women are born take on this role. I'm one of those women, and so is Lucinda. I've been married to a man with a multitude of issues for two months short of 56 years. I've always been the person friends brought their problems to. I don't know why, but that's the way things have been since my teenage years. We married young, and I'll admit there have times when I've wondered if it's worth it. But when push comes to shove, my husband has become the nurturing carer for me now and I know it was worth it.

Lucinda said to Timothy, 'I'm here for all of this.' She's just one of those people who wants to help and has the skills to do it. Like me, Lucinda doesn't see it as sublimating her needs, and frankly, I find it a bit insulting to suggest that she does.

pippa March 7, 2024

Timothy didn’t say Jayden was ‘nothing’. When they were arguing about whether or not Jayden had the right to criticise Timothy and Lucinda’s relationship, given his youth, Timothy said, ‘You’ve GOT nothing!’ There’s a big difference.

The kerfuffle over this really demonstrates how unreliable memory can be when remembering conversations.

pippa March 3, 2024

Are we supposed to be impressed at this obscene display of wealth built on the backs of people who live in abject poverty?

The hypocrisy of this family and their guests is mind blowing. On the one hand, they're preaching to the rest of us that we must stop consuming meat and dairy products, and on the other hand, flying around the world in their private jets whenever and wherever their fancy takes them. The host family is having two bob each way by investing their money in fossil fuel and solar panels.

I just think in these uncertain times, when so many decent, hard working people worldwide are struggling to maintain a reasonable standard of living, flaunting your wealth is about as tacky as you can get. And does anyone really believe that the rent a guest mob from America are personal friends of either of the couple?

pippa February 3, 2024

Things have been a bit tough for me the last few months and when a friend sent me this last week, I couldn't stop laughing. I had another fit of hysterics reading this article when I saw the extra details.

pippa February 1, 2024

@melbournewoman, since I wrote that, I've learned that Lucinda Light is not her real name, and she's a professional actor. That's her stage name.

I think the reason I can't take her seriously, is that every time she opens her mouth, my sick sense of humour takes me back to Kath and Kel attending couples counselling, with Marg Downie playing the therapist. At the end of each session, Marg Downie would say, 'Now, who'd like a nice cup of Jarrah?' The voice, the inflection, everything is Ms Light.

pippa February 1, 2024

It was sooo much simpler when a hen's party consisted of dinner at Miranda RSL, followed by Eden Kane in concert.

Unthinkably boring I know to the modern generation, but standard in 1968. There were no hurt feelings all night, and we parted the same happy group of friends as when we arrived.

pippa January 30, 2024

You’re probably going to hate me, but after watching Ms Light, I pressed the Pause button and told my husband that she’s one of the least authentic people I’ve ever come across. Having grown up on the NSW north coast where she lives, and returned there to live and work for ten years, I’ve met dozens like her.

She’s cultivated her look and persona very carefully. The Byron Bay area is awash with people who look like her, but the authentic ones behave entirely differently. They don’t trot out life affirming phrases at the drop of a hat, they speak normally, they don’t need to prove anything. I’d be prepared to bet also, that she wasn’t given that name at birth.

She’s probably a lovely person, but in my opinion, she’s not who or what she’s pretending to be, but desperately wants to be.

pippa January 28, 2024

This is what happens when managers heap fulsome praise on an employee, even if justified, giving them a sense of security that’s unwarranted. It’s much more common in America, because of the culture of affirming everything everyone does.

Also, the bullshit phrases churned out by the HR people were laughable.

pippa January 26, 2024

@saggie, how dare you lecture me on domestic violence! I'm a survivor of a very violent relationship which saw me hospitalised! Only once, that's all it needed.

You're deliberately twisting my words. I did not condone any form of violence to humans or animals. My comment wasn't based on this article alone. Perhaps YOU should reread MY original comment. I said two days, two poisonous mother in law stories. I wasn't speaking of the specifics in either article, I was speaking generally.

I spent 42 years working as a health professional, most of those years as a nurse, some of those years in emergency in a Sydney teaching hospital. I gave the majority of my life to caring for people and you have the temerity to accuse me of condoning violence. My husband and I also volunteer for an animal rescue charity. You know nothing about me, yet you feel yourself qualified to assassinate my character. Without understanding my comment. And it really wasn't necessary to write three times that you weren't the only one who disagreed with me. One other person did, and that simply means that there are two people who didn't bother to read the first few words.

Once and for all: my comments were not based on either of the TWO articles, except that they raised the point that I read Mamamia every day and over many years, I've read many mother in law stories. Every single one has been the mother of someone's husband. I have never read an article about the mother of a woman treating her husband badly, or a daughter in law who treats her mother in law badly.

pippa January 26, 2024

@mamamia-user-431308756, that’s absolutely right, but I think it would be naive to believe that had the British not settled Australia, our indigenous would never have discovered drugs and alcohol.

It should be noted that Australians of all creeds and colours have the same access to drugs and alcohol. They don’t all choose to succumb to them.

Saying that Aborigines having access to drugs and alcohol is the cause of the problem, is implying that they’re helpless victims who can’t take responsibility for their actions. In the final analysis, the responsibility lies with the individual. Many thousands of Aboriginal Australians have access to drugs and alcohol and choose to either use in moderation or not at all.

I’m tired of seeing our indigenous cast in the role of immature children, not able to think for themselves or make responsible choices.

pippa January 25, 2024

I’m a skin sister in law of a well known full blood Australian Aborigine and therefore a skin aunty to her even better known daughter. I adore them both.

Their mob is large and contains, like all mobs and families, people with very different opinions. However, most of them agree on one thing: they don’t give two hoots about the date of Australia Day. These are the Aborigines living on country, the ones living in appalling conditions that a date change will not affect one iota.

Ask them why they live this way and they’ll cheerfully admit it’s because of drug and alcohol addiction. Ask them if they want to change and live in nice homes with three meals a day and sending their kids to school every day and they’ll shudder. No way missus! This is the reality.

For the sake of our indigenous, city dwelling folks drinking the Koolaid of the (mostly white) activists need to ditch the rose coloured glasses. My view is what I’ve experienced, not read about or heard on the news.

pippa January 25, 2024

@saggie, I find it incredible that you can’t see my point. My point is this: it’s not only women who have horrible mothers in law. My son’s mother in law did none of the things you mention. If these actions are the only criteria for shocking parenting, then no, she didn’t behave that way.

It must be wonderful to believe that only physical actions cause pain. The emotional turmoil my son’s mother in law has caused to her daughter - and continues to cause - is also terrible.

My mother in law was wonderful and my husband turned to my mother when his own mother died on his 31st birthday, so I have no axe to grind.

I firmly believe in the saying that it doesn’t matter how flat you make a pancake, there are always two sides. On this forum however, it seems that the only side that counts is the one that believes and agrees with everything the article says.

pippa January 24, 2024

Two days and two poisonous mother in law stories. Both mothers of men. Are mothers of women always perfect? My son would beg to differ: he and his wife will celebrate 16 years of marriage next month and are blissfully happy. I just love seeing them together.

Unfortunately, his mother in law is unable to stop interfering in everything from child rearing - their kids are 14 and 12 - to home decor. My husband and I just let them get on with their lives. What happens in committed relationships should stay there. It’s nobody else’s business.

pippa January 22, 2024

I find this trend incredibly concerning, and much hand wringing is occurring on the part of parents and others worried about the obsession with something that shouldn’t be of concern at this age.

How did this happen? I’d suggest there are many contributing factors, some of which are discussed in the article. Of most concern is the fact that girls are being coerced into worrying about something at a much too early age. Why then, does the last paragraph begin with the words, ‘Let’s make sun protection sexy ……’? Surely that’s something else tweens shouldn’t be thinking about. And maybe, just maybe, this is another contributing factor.

pippa January 10, 2024

The biggest losers in this situation are the grandchildren. The relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren is so unique and special. I believe it’s incumbent on parents to make sure their kids are loved by as many people as possible.