# FML: Eff My Life **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440 "2016-03-28T05:19:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/21 "2016-03-29T22:58:27Z")
I re-read the first link, AKA the HPV Revelation. Rik, have you noticed a surprising correlation between the woman who you were with in the homeless shelter and your current lady? The same volatility, the same forceful personality, your same reaction to both of them? “You should ask me out.” “Ok.” “We should get married immediately.” “Ok.” I think if you dig a little further, you’ll find a psychological pathology on her part. Add in your own untreated issues, and I think you’re doing each other a serious disservice. ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/22 "2016-03-29T23:07:19Z")
> [@](#): > > And then my lady suddenly got riled up and decided that we needed to leave. So I thanked that young woman, and we left. And … she’s moved into my apartment, but still has the keys to her old apartment next door, and that’s where she went. She didn’t want to talk to me. And here I am now, still wondering, “WTF did I do?” Perhaps you should ask her. The comments about marrying a Mexican and expecting her grandchildren to carry your name are incredibly offensive. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/23 "2016-03-29T23:26:01Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > when I got to the part about you being alone with both of them and getting drunk, I thought this story was headed for maximum chaos and personal disaster, and least you didn’t go _there_. I was thisclose to looking up “watched Family Feud” on UrbanDictionary, convinced it was a euphemism. Glad I’m not the only one. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/24 "2016-03-30T00:13:23Z")
I started reading the OP thinking you had a really serious problem and in fact I didn’t laugh at all until, "Guess who was the first person in my church (aside from the pastor and his wife) to reach out to me and my fiancé.’ Anyway it turned out not so bad. If we trim all the extraneous detail from your story it is just this: you have a drinking problem and a fiancee with a drinking problem. She is angry with you. Not that many variables that you can change really. Just do enough so that in 12 months, “I have a drinking problem and a fiancee with a drinking problem. She is angry with me,” won’t be an accurate reflection of your life. “I have a drinking problem and a wife with a drinking problem. She is angry with me,” won’t really be an improvement ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/25 "2016-03-30T00:38:27Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > OK, but I still don’t understand how a bill becomes a law.😕 > [@Rigamarole](#): > > [I can help you with that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBpdxEMelR0)! [Every](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66f4-NKEYz4) [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld4daZsx1Z4) [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouXbD7f5xmU) describing how a bill becomes a law is now required to reference the Schoolhouse Rock video. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/26 "2016-03-30T02:02:32Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > I don’t disagree with any of the advice in this thread, but when I got to the part about you being alone with both of them and getting drunk, I thought this story was headed for maximum chaos and personal disaster, and least you didn’t go _there_. > > Perhaps your pastor can offer some relationship counseling? I seriously thought this was going to turn out to be a Dear Penthouse letter. **MisterRik** do not get married right now. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/27 "2016-03-30T08:31:07Z")
Also note in the OP that the fiance “got a bunch of bad news from her family the day before our wedding, and ended up getting drunk to deal with it.” This is my old girlfriend to a T. In this instance, the fiance didn’t just get bad news but got it the day before the wedding. Perfect timing for maximum dramatic effect. If my old girlfriend and I had something major planned, more often than not there would be some sort of huge-ass crisis just hours beforehand. I mean almost without fail. I generally don’t involve myself with relationship threads, but the fiance in the OP sounds scarily like my old girlfriend, whose claws I managed to remove only by moving to Hawaii, which was too far and too expensive for her to afford to follow me. If I’d stayed on the mainland, I would no doubt have had to get a court order to keep her away. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/28 "2016-03-30T12:22:55Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Crazy thought here MisterRik- have you asked her what upset her? Genuinely asked her with the intent to listen? Maybe she was already upset because in her intoxicated state, she thought she caught our intrepid hero making surreptitious goo goo eyes at his (newly-single) Lolita. Pure paranoia, of course. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/29 "2016-03-30T12:28:53Z")
I use “Fuck My Life” all the time. I’ll mutter it and someone will ask what’s the problem. I sigh, then share the fact that I accidentally put on one dark navy sock and one black sock. But I’ve never used the phrase unironically. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440/30 "2016-03-30T14:57:24Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Perfect timing for maximum dramatic effect. Excellent point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fml-eff-my-life/750440.md?page=1)