My future mother-in-law called me stupid and now I'm considering calling off the wedding.

How do I approach the situation? This was originally posted on June the 29th, 2024.

I am a 23-year-old woman and I'm engaged to John who is 24. We're together for five years.

We want to get married in July 2025. I always thought that his family liked me because we get along well. He has two older brothers who

were 26 and 29 who are both married. Honestly I was very excited to have them all as my

in-laws. They were always kind to me. Some kind of important information.

About a year ago when I was scrolling on Instagram I saw a profile that was kind of

cringing but in a cute way. It was an older woman's profile who shared inspirational quotes. I remember one particular

post and it was something along the lines of, only stupid people pretend to know everything.

Don't pretend, just ask.

Honestly, this quote changed me in a lot of ways.

Before that, I was always worried that I might embarrass myself if I don't know something.

And after reading that quote, I realized that if I always pretend that I know everything

then I'll miss out on actually getting to learn about things. So I decided to change my habits

and start admitting that sometimes I genuinely don't know.

Someone is talking about the war in Kosovo?

Okay, sure, but first let me ask some questions

so I can really understand what we're talking about.

And I ask a lot of questions sometimes.

I sometimes even open the notes app and write in some questions that I later want to find the answers to.

These are my latest. How does the time work in a black hole? Why some snails have shells and others don't?

What food is okay for ducks? How does the light bulb work? The old ones with gas inside them?

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