Dear Brooke – I found your site from Primer and recently read your article on being engaged.
I just became engaged to a wonderful woman who I love very much. We live together, have many of the same tastes and desires and get along great with our respective families. I’m really looking forward to a long and happy life together. There is, naturally, an issue that I can’t seem to get over.
Keep Reading→The IsCollection's annual wedding issue came out last week and the editor asked me to contribute something not unrealistic-over-the-top-weddings-and-engagement-and-love-and-relationships-are-perfect-in-every-way-googly-mushiness... She said Brooke, write something real, and I said, Ms. Editor, you've come to the right place....
So, here is "The Thing About Being Engaged" ...some romance and some reality all mixed up in one Soapbox Therapy package.
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