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Welcome back to UnLadylike! I'm Kristen and we are here for another edition of Ask UnLadylike, where I open up the mailbag and the DMs to answer your questions that Google...

Well, Google will try, but I don't recommend it. And before we get to this week's set of brand new sparkling dazzling and, yes, in raging questions, I'm already coming in hot thinking about one of them in particular, I wanted to share a fun fact follow-up from last Ask UnLadylike,

where we talked about wedding culture and engagement rings. And UnLady Natasha shared in Brazil, I'm half Brazilian, both the man and the woman get engagement rings.

They wear them on their right hands while engaged, then symbolically transfer them to the left hands at the wedding.

So, it's common for rings to be the simple plain gold band that we think of in the US as the man's wedding ring.

Because of the influence of US culture, though, this tradition is changing and engagement rings of the American genre are becoming more popular.

Brazil is a very sexist country, but this is quite an egalitarian tradition.

And I love that fact from Natasha, except it's just another example of US culture ruining things. I mean, come on. What a beautiful simple tradition of like, hey, you know what?

You're going to get a simple band. You're going to get a simple band. We don't have to worry about transporting them to the wedding.

Something's going to get lost. No, you're going to be wearing them. And then you just change the ring over to the other hand.

And you don't have to feel pressured to spend a bazillion dollars on a rock.

Brazil, come on. Don't be like us. Please.

Doesn't the world know at this point that you don't want to be like us? To put it in wedding terms, I mean, just say I don't.

Just say I don't. And I do versus I don't actually brings us perfectly into our very first advice question of the episode.

Kelly writes, I have a question about a friend who had planned to come stay with us for a week and did not disclose in advance that she was unvaccinated.

We didn't think to ask because she's the only friend we have who has chosen not to be vaccinated and we have a baby.

So we thought that we should ask her directly, but it just occurred to us to ask like a week before she arrived and unfortunately we couldn't let her stay with us because we were not comfortable with exposing my baby to someone who was unvaccinated and would have been traveling by airplane to come here.

When she arrived, she had made other plans to stay with other people in the area. We did end up going on a hike with her and it was very awkward and our relationship has really fizzled since then.

We've had no contact essentially. I reached out by text a couple of times. I was really mad about the whole situation and that she would endanger the health and safety of our family like that.

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