like funerals and weddings. i don’t want to go to any of them, but i have to, my niece is getting serious with her boyfriend and they may get married when she graduates college this summer. i have to be there, and then my family is getting older, and i will have a lot of funerals to go to over the next 10 to 20 years, i don’t know what to say to my cousins who i haven’t seen in all these years, but once again feel like i have to be there.
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I don’t have any weddings to go to anymore. But funerals… Yeah… I’m dreading them too…
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I like occasions eventhough I am not really social there. I enjoy the food, drinks and music.
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it’s funny i have anxiety over things that haven’t happened yet. i think for funerals i will just go to visitations and not the funeral and meal at a church afterwards.
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I love Weddings!
It’s the only place you get to hear the Bride and Groom say those two magical words…
Open Bar! 
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When my husband’s family have a wedding it’s a big thing and I get anxious with being around so many people
With funerals, in my religion women don’t take part in prayers at mosque and going to cemetery - they congregate at the deceased’s house.
I went once to my husband’s uncle’s funeral and stayed at the house with the ladies waiting for men to return for lunch, and I was bored stiff so thought - never again!! Unless it’s a very close relative.
Nowadays if there’s a funeral, I ask my husband to ask his dad to take him, or I offer to drive him directly to mosque and cemetery and wait in car instead of going to house.
These social functions are too much for me - I get overwhelmed, over stimulated and bored out of my mind unless I take a book with.
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At my moms funeral I had to get up in front of 20-30 people and talk for about ten minutes. I didn’t want to do it but sometimes you have to place other people ahead of yourself. So I said some good stuff about my mom and later a few people came up and told me I did real good.
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