Mother's day makes me feel awkward.

It does me too for different reasons.

I was just coming to this thread to post that. *hugs*

This is why from the day my mom joined Facebook, her permissions on my account are nil.

Mother's Day makes me feel awkward, too - it's the one Sunday that I will not go to church.

An erstwhile GC member (who is pretty liberal) and one of my older sorority sisters who is a tad to the right of John Birch got into it one day. Don't know who all remembers that but it was rather amusing. This older sister is the only one who has ever said anything that I've had to delete on my wall, and I've done it several times. She's very...I suppose "strident" is the word. I'm sure she would pitch a bitch if I deleted her though (I have no problem imagining that she keeps a spreadsheet full of her FB friends) so I just hide her in my feed.

I went to church last night forgetting about Mother's Day being today. So I'm feeling awkward when all of the moms stand up, but then I almost lost it when the pastor was praying for the moms and said a prayer for those women who have been trying to become a mom but cant for whatever reason and are struggling with sadness & frustration.

I stay off facebook on Mother's Day.

I feel awkward when people bring up uncomfortable things in public, and since I'm in college where people still think its okay to be consistently wasted, it happens pretty often. For example, my sorority is rather large and while I love all my sisters, there are a number of them that I either do not know well, or am friendly with but not really that close to. One of the latter used to have a gigantic crush on the guy I happen to be seeing, and since I'm not really close with her, I had no idea until he and I had already got together. She comes up to me EVERY time she sees me out, and goes into a loooong speech about how she used to like him. I honestly don't know what she wants me to say..."okay, you can have him"? Mostly I keep quiet about him and don't flaunt him in front of her, but I didn't know until after I started seeing him and its beginning to drive me nuts! /rant

I'm a person who is terrible with names, great at recognizing faces, but I couldn't place them in so many cases if my life depended on it. I can't tell you how many times someone will start a conversation as if they know me really well and I can't figure out how they know me so I'll just go with it but feel very awkward. Sometimes I am completely sure I have never seen the person before...perhaps I look like someone else? This happens to me really often, and I'm not sure why. I'm not even much of a drinker, so that can't be it!

Also, I am just five feet tall and a pretty tiny person...lets just say I can fit into the larger sizes of children's clothing. However, it makes me REALLY uncomfortable when people comment on it...I've had people try to pick me up, pat me on the head, yell OMG YOU'RE SOOOOOO CUTE AND LITTLE and it really freaks me out. For the record, I usually like being little, but people can get really weird about it and act like I'm some sort of doll.

This is what I'm going to be saying on Father's day. Mother's day made me remember that.
"Limited profile" is now spell "m-o-m." ;)

Indeed. I can't picture my parents signing up for Facebook accounts, but my MIL has asked us more than once about FB. The only thing stopping her from signing up is that you have to provide your date of birth. (Come on. It's not like you have to provide your real DOB.) But if she does ever sign up - well, I'll have to friend her or she won't stop whining - but she will go in her own little security group that will be on total lockdown - no status updates, no gaming posts, no photos or videos, nada.

Mother's Day sometimes makes me feel awkward too. People tend to ASSume I'm a mom. Last night, I was at a temple fundraiser, and one of the coordinators announced, "Happy Mother's Day to all the ladies here." AFAIK, I'm the only adult female congregant without children. Does that mean I'm not a lady? :( But I held my tongue and took the announcement in the spirit it was intended - all the other women who were present are mothers.

Mothers includes furry children too, as I was reminded by a friend who called me and told me Happy Mother's Day. And once a mom, always a mom. :)

Exactly why I don't like Mother's Day!

What makes me feel awkward is being so upset with the one thing that made me so happy that I no longer want to even be involved with it. It sucks to be so excited about something to the point of feeling major disappointment when something that might appear to be small/ minute feels like a real slap in the face. When you go back through the last few years and try to erase something that you absolutely loved out of your life (or seemingly so) because it seems to be one thing after another that hurts your feelings, it's a horrible feeling. Maybe I'm better off just fading into the background. :(

As reflected in your signature? Don't feel obligated to answer, I'm just nosy and following your lead.

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Count me in for people who feel awkward when people fight in front of them, especially couples and parents and children. I'm not always a model son, but I'll be damned if someone catches me yelling at/arguing with to my parents.

When one of your sisters has a facebook status about getting her body bikini ready and another sister's boyfriend likes it...