February 28th, 2008

I’m a Filipina happily married living here in the UK. I like in here cause I have my own privacy. I feel independent & people here are less nosy (actually i don’t think they’re being nosy at all) . Once in a while I chat with my relatives (cousins & Aunts) on YM. I know it’s normal if they ask you, how are you? and normally you return the question to them.But I don’t think it’s alright to ask what my husband is up to with his job? Where is he working , if he still working in the same company & once they asked me how much is his salary? When you’ll going to have baby? Why not now? I never ask them personal question cause I believe it’s none of my business. I don’t know why they are being nosy? I also noticed that, if you return the questions to them. They just shut up or give you very little detail on what’s going on with them. But if I do the same thing, they will just just rephrase the question which obviously they’re trying to squeeze me
Please help me on how to deal with them?
We’ve been married for 4years. We decided not to have baby yet but we do have plans but not yet. I made that clear to them WHEN? but they keep asking. I believe I’ve showed enough that Im happy & content with my life. I never complain about my life to them. So i don’t see a point asking me personal stuffs. I never gave them any hints. They see us in our picts that we’re alright & merry & relax. If you ask them similar questions they shut up. They don’t give details. They just answer me with we’re ‘OK’ . But if I do that they never get contentment. though they never ask the postive side I tried to tell happy stories but once i start telling good stories they say Im showing off or they gone quiet , they don’t seem interested cause they never ask further questions but if I hint negative things seems like they’re wanting more. (i don’t believe they have to know little family problems. It’s our problem we can sort it out, i don’t think it’s their business).
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February 15th, 2008
I am soooooo sick of hearing this question. As if marriage is the be all and end all. Getting married is the simple part. Finding a a life mate you adore is the hard part. No matter how many times I explain this to my Italian relatives they think I have something wrong with me i.e. loser. How do I shut them up once and for all repectfully of course?
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December 19th, 2007

We live in a corner, so we have a large wrap around the courtyard. We have a pool, hottub and sunroom. Our neighbours are right next to us. We live in a story and live in a story 2. One of the rooms has a small window and faces directly into part of our courtyard. However, at night I like to sit in the hottub. I go out everynight, neighbours Transforming their lights off. And when the exit, then turn their backs. Are so curious, we look through the window. And when we got the first hottub have installed one of those Where the lights when you walk by, you know goes on? He lights 2 And one of them is twisted driveway right and the other in our courtyard. I was sitting in the hottub last night and their lights went down, The great bright light came on and heard their open door and my dog was parking at the fence. We tried to put a higher barrier, but It is against the laws of the city. When we always seem to swim just Being lucky in their front yard and have some excuse to walk from the fence. Sometimes we eat out and my mom is occasionally speak loudly saying things like how are curious, and we call the police on them if We keep on, to scare off you know? But does not stop. What have just start again. Our yard is divied into 2, so that our dogs have a whole courtyard theirseldfs. Dog in the yard we have a shed and sometimes when I go to take something, you can view them look through the fence, the sun shines directly on their house, and his way Scomoda. How do not know if they are going to lay something on you or if they are going to look only you, you know? The curious are the father and children, who are all boys and a girl. What should I do? I like to have some 'freedom And you know my mother sits in the hottub naked, gross know, and I do not want to be around at school it! : / AID>? 1
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December 18th, 2007
I have 3 acres of land in my home and a courtyard surrounded by trees. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine how my neighbors can be so curious, have clearly put a lot of effort into it. I'ma 19 yr old college student, and sometimes, when the weather is beautiful, I like to listen to my ipod on my swing. Yes, I know, are swings for children, but I have reason to a playground and it is relaxing for me. Problem is my neighbor (one of whom is 16), goes around the local high school to tell everyone about how I swing on my swing during my spare time, outside the college. Vai figure. How do I handle this grace? Good idea, but by the next 16 years is a girl I think that irritates me more than anything else, trying to make me out as I'ma freak playing on a playground or something I swinging and I am only listening to my ipod after a long day and this little curious b * tch apparently hiding in the bushes or something watching me
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