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Meeting the family of my son's boyfriend just before Christmas and am having a crippling bout of class anxiety

My eldest son is a freshman at Reed College and is currently seriously dating a junior, who comes from what I understand to be a wealthy, upper-middle class WASP family from Roanoke. My husband and me is flying out to meet them in a few weeks, when all the Thanksgiving weekend chaos dies down, and before it gets seriously busy Chirstmas week. I am having a crushing case of class anxiety. I already can't sleep because of the panic attacks, and have to take multiple diazepams just to get some rest before noon. We're pretty sure that they won't be homophobic since their son is out and proud, although he is a top and masc privilege is somethign we need to talk aboiut in the gay community. My husband also has no concerns: he is very self-confident and masculine. I am, however, not straight passing. I am obviously gay, effeminate, overweight, balding and have a high-pitched, lisping voice. Also, I was raised on a ranch in Nebraska. I never went to college and dropped out of HS at 16 to hustle truck stops, when I ran away from home on account of my abusive father. My husband earns well, but he's in a creative industry where qualifications aren't' that important, and he's not particularly well-read or well-cultured, just ultra-confident and masculine. I'm not and it kills me inside. We were driving yesteday to my local Wholefoods and I reflected on the trappings of success we have: my husband has 3 mil in his 401K and we drive a Tesla.

But then I thought of the family of my son's boyfriend: Ivy-educated, father was a partner at a White Shoe law firm, mother is a member of the board of trustees of a prominent art gallery in Richmond. I spoke to them on the phone and I was so fucking humiliated! They both have perfect, beautiful, cut-glass mid-Atlantic accents, while I have a nasal whine. I was in awe of them just by hearing them on the phone! The class anxiety was so bad I had to tell my husband to stop the car in the Wholefoods parking lot. I told him to step out and he dutifully did to get a Dasani. I immediately broke down and started howling and wailing, mourning my lost dignity in advance. I feel like every second I spend in the presence of these perfectly manicured parents with their carefully curated antiques they INHERITED (not bought) will be agony for me. I tried to do an elocution course online but I can't get rid of my lisp. My lisp actually gets worse when I'm nervous and I strarts to make grammar mistakes.

What should I do? Should we just blow them off and find an excuse to cancel. I'm begging my husbear to say we both have Covid or some shit like that

by Anonymousreply 114November 28, 2022 8:36 AM

[quote]I immediately broke down and started howling and wailing

You might wanna tone that shit down.

by Anonymousreply 1November 27, 2022 1:05 AM

R1 you simply don't understand how crushing class anxiety can be when meeting WASP aristocracy. I have NOTHING in common with these people, and feel inferior and overmatched just thinking about it.

by Anonymousreply 2November 27, 2022 1:07 AM

Why would you include all those details that make it easy to identify you and your son?

by Anonymousreply 3November 27, 2022 1:08 AM

R3 unless his boyfriend's parents are on DL that's pretty unlikely?

by Anonymousreply 4November 27, 2022 1:09 AM

[bold] B R I C K

S H I T H O U S E

T R O L L

A L E R T

by Anonymousreply 5November 27, 2022 1:10 AM

This never happened.

by Anonymousreply 6November 27, 2022 1:10 AM

You are trying way too hard tonight op.

by Anonymousreply 7November 27, 2022 1:11 AM

R6 stop demeaning my feelings. When I thought about this thread, I had a bout of uncontrollable spastic flatus. I needed to lie down and take a few gummies.

by Anonymousreply 8November 27, 2022 1:11 AM

Is there a full moon tonight?

by Anonymousreply 9November 27, 2022 1:11 AM

R9 my episode of spastic flatus is bad. I haven't even eaten anything.

by Anonymousreply 10November 27, 2022 1:12 AM

How nice for SBT to provide us a Thanksgiving update this year, rather than the usual Christmastime one!

by Anonymousreply 11November 27, 2022 1:12 AM

[quote] a wealthy, upper-middle class WASP family from Roanoke

by Anonymousreply 12November 27, 2022 1:13 AM

[quote] My husband and me is flying out to meet them in a few weeks

Oh my . . .

by Anonymousreply 13November 27, 2022 1:15 AM

Whole Foods doesn’t sell Dasani and WASPs don’t go to Reed.

by Anonymousreply 14November 27, 2022 1:17 AM

R12 you do know there's old founding stock money in Roanoke VIRGINIA right?

by Anonymousreply 15November 27, 2022 1:17 AM

0/10 Stupid, not even good trolling

by Anonymousreply 16November 27, 2022 1:18 AM

This is one big, damned dumb, phony story. 😂

by Anonymousreply 17November 27, 2022 1:19 AM

R13, OP says that "I strarts to make grammar mistakes" when nervous, so lets cut him some slack. Then lets have him euthanized because he's clearly too delicate to live.

by Anonymousreply 18November 27, 2022 1:19 AM

Calling Dr. Kevorkian!

by Anonymousreply 19November 27, 2022 1:20 AM

Check ignoredar and OP also posted this ridiculous story.

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by Anonymousreply 20November 27, 2022 1:20 AM

tl:dr

by Anonymousreply 21November 27, 2022 1:21 AM

Avoid stories about ping pong balls.

by Anonymousreply 22November 27, 2022 1:22 AM

FAIL

by Anonymousreply 23November 27, 2022 1:25 AM

R15 - Have you actually been to Roanoke? There’s no “there” there, no “aristocracy” of any kind, and it’s claim-to-fame is a big-ass electrified star on a hillside that gets lit up in red when someone dies in a car accident.

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by Anonymousreply 24November 27, 2022 1:29 AM

And what about your puny, inferior cocklet OP? How does it fit in the story?

by Anonymousreply 25November 27, 2022 1:32 AM

[QUOTE]"My husband and me is..."

It's too late. Accept whatever crumbs they throw at you.

by Anonymousreply 26November 27, 2022 1:32 AM

They will eat you alive. Your son will spend his lifetime never being good enough.

RUN!

by Anonymousreply 27November 27, 2022 1:39 AM

I got this bad, too. I am completely crushed and in awe by the moneyed, low-key WASP elite. They really are the last remnants of this country's aristocracy - so superior to the Trumps and other vulgarians who now rule over us. I want to return to a gentler, more refined world where the cultured, rational rule of that NE elite guided us. It was a better time.

by Anonymousreply 28November 27, 2022 1:40 AM

Roanoke was probably chosen randomly to be the "WASP" city for this EST.

There have been tells (spellings, colloquialisms) that SBT is actually British and not American. Especially with his home state being Montana or Nebraska, depending on the story.

by Anonymousreply 29November 27, 2022 1:42 AM

1.5/10

by Anonymousreply 30November 27, 2022 1:43 AM

Embrace who you are OP.

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by Anonymousreply 31November 27, 2022 1:43 AM

Suggest you just run with it, and quick go out and get a bad tattoo, wear a wife beater with stains, and take up smoking and drinking beer.

by Anonymousreply 32November 27, 2022 1:44 AM

R29 which colloquialisms? I'm fascinated.

by Anonymousreply 33November 27, 2022 1:45 AM

As long as you don't let them see your house with all the rusted, old cars up on cinder blocks parked in your front yard, you'll be fine.

by Anonymousreply 34November 27, 2022 1:47 AM

[quote]a wealthy, upper-middle class WASP family from Roanoke

Should have said Charleston, OP.

by Anonymousreply 35November 27, 2022 1:49 AM

R35 still don't understand how you can say OP Is British.

by Anonymousreply 36November 27, 2022 1:50 AM

R33, this one came to mind: his homophobic, abusive uncle being "in hospital". The British say that. Americans (and Canadians) say "in THE hospital".

I even read a hypothesis once that SBT is actually Milo Y, which is really sobering and makes me feel pretty bad for laughing at his stories for so long.

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by Anonymousreply 37November 27, 2022 1:52 AM

[R13} I caught that, too. He best take an English grammar class before meeting them.

by Anonymousreply 38November 27, 2022 1:53 AM

“Eldest” for starters

by Anonymousreply 39November 27, 2022 1:53 AM

I've never heard of an American having "class anxiety" -- Americans may feel inferior to those who have more money or better education or a more important/prestigious job, but the whole concept of upperclass vs. lowerclass doesn't really exist. The place where class matters is England, historically and still today. So I agree with R29 that OP may well be British.

by Anonymousreply 40November 27, 2022 1:55 AM

R37 interesting - although it could just be a typo.

by Anonymousreply 41November 27, 2022 1:55 AM

Richmond is, at best, second string. Roanoke even less. Nick town gentry and you’re intimidated? If this is just a trolling, then you could have picked a better scenario—maybe WASPs from the North Shore of Chicago(or Boston).

by Anonymousreply 42November 27, 2022 1:57 AM

First of all anyone from Roanoke isn’t high class wasp. I can’t stop laughing. Second, this is an about you you stupid stupid man. It’s about your son. Apparently you care too much about yourself. I would suggest you just don’t talk very much, say please and thank you be careful of what you eat, so you aren’t farting all over their home and just they don’t have to like you. They only have to support their son and his choice of a partner. The end.

by Anonymousreply 43November 27, 2022 2:00 AM

Just be yourself, but be quiet and humble. You're not moving in with those people. You'll either never see them again, or if you son and their son stay together and eventually get married you will see them infrequently. If they don't like what they see in you, that's their problem, not yours. If the worst case scenario happens and they act like assholes then the answer is clear. You just make sure you never be in their presence again.

Life is too damn short to worry about what others think of you. If they can't take you as you are then fuck them.

by Anonymousreply 44November 27, 2022 2:02 AM

Did you make turkey meatballs again OP?

by Anonymousreply 45November 27, 2022 2:07 AM

OP.. are you the same 'author' of the Piss enema?

by Anonymousreply 46November 27, 2022 2:08 AM

OP - you did not mention your tiny cocklet!!! you're slipping...

by Anonymousreply 47November 27, 2022 2:22 AM

If they truly are WASPS, their son has already disappointed them by having a boyfriend. Meeting you and your husband new money selves won't make things any worse. Also try to remember they live in Roanoke. There are thousands of families with much more class and money in actual Social Register cities, like Boston, New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and D.C. If you are really worried about how you'll come off, I suggest binge watching episodes of Frasier. Sure Kelsey Grammar treated his ex wife Camille especially cruel on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but his work is good and I think it would really help! Pretend you've never been inside a Walmart. Pretend you've never eaten a Hot Pocket. Pretend you weren't left alone with your uncle in the family trailer and that he didn't use Pabst Blue Ribbon as lube for your first time.

I hope this helped :)

by Anonymousreply 48November 27, 2022 2:35 AM

From Roanoke VA?? Please. They can't that upper crust. Chill.

by Anonymousreply 49November 27, 2022 2:48 AM

Tell us more about your fuzzy Lot Lizard coming of age tales.

by Anonymousreply 50November 27, 2022 2:52 AM

Lol I actually enjoyed reading this troll’s story. I’ll give a 6 out of 10. 👍🏽

by Anonymousreply 51November 27, 2022 2:54 AM

Calm down and man up

by Anonymousreply 52November 27, 2022 2:58 AM

[quote] They can't be that upper crust.

Well, there’s that, plus the fact that none of these people exist except as figments of OP’s feeble imagination. 🤷‍♂️

by Anonymousreply 53November 27, 2022 3:00 AM

Definitely agree with R40, OP is a pasty old git. A very large, depraved fool with few literary gifts, even of parody.

by Anonymousreply 54November 27, 2022 3:00 AM

I wish that was all I had to worry about instead of my cancer.

by Anonymousreply 55November 27, 2022 3:03 AM

R45, I think it was stewed prune meatballs in his dream.

-5/10. Op, you put too much work into your “shit” story. 3rd graders wouldn’t believe this shit.

by Anonymousreply 56November 27, 2022 3:08 AM

Pretend to have laryngitis, and do not speak the whole time. If you speak, they will instantly recognize you for the ignorant trash that you are, OP.

Now, go put on a dress, dance around for us, and then show us your puny cocklet, so we can all laugh at you before we rape you.

by Anonymousreply 57November 27, 2022 3:10 AM

Since when do art galleries have Boards of Trustees?

by Anonymousreply 58November 27, 2022 3:19 AM

R56 I don’t believe he’s aiming for believability. He thinks he’s nurturing a unique DL genre of puerile-farce-cum-deviant-absurdism.

And not very well, I might add.

R54

by Anonymousreply 59November 27, 2022 3:24 AM

[quote] What should I do? Should we just blow them off and find an excuse to cancel.

Postpone the visit. How long do you expect this relationship to last?

by Anonymousreply 60November 27, 2022 3:26 AM

Another cunt was desperate for attention. Please log off the computer and hang out with your imaginary friend

by Anonymousreply 61November 27, 2022 3:26 AM

R30, EST accusations are expressly forbidden at Datalounge. I'm afraid I have no choice but to report you to the Editor, but first I have to spray some Febreze on my lady business.

by Anonymousreply 62November 27, 2022 3:33 AM

He has Dada issues, of the poetic variety. I know it’s covered in the diagnostic manual, one of several pathologies.

by Anonymousreply 63November 27, 2022 3:37 AM

Dear OP, you should stay at home and your son should take the responsibility if required to explain your absence.

by Anonymousreply 64November 27, 2022 3:37 AM

Tell them you bought the property next-door, and will be opening a home for wayward girls.

by Anonymousreply 65November 27, 2022 3:45 AM

Your other story was more entertaining, but this was a smidge more believable.

by Anonymousreply 66November 27, 2022 6:15 AM

Man up and go, OP.

Maybe your mincing faggotry will be too much for your son's new father in law to tolerate and he'll drag you into a broom closet to fuck you while hitting you with his Sperry topsider.

by Anonymousreply 67November 27, 2022 6:35 AM

Don't stress pumpkin. Be polite and let them run the conversation. Keep your comments happy, joyful and fun. If you're lucky they'll be boozers and it'll be a liquid lunch of horror

by Anonymousreply 68November 27, 2022 6:57 AM

I see our resident truck stop fanfic queen with the "cocklet" has returned. I didn't know his son went to Reed, though—a local to me! I'd suggest your son transfer to Lewis & Clark (or maybe U of P), or get the fuck out of Portland for his education. My dad dated a girl in the '80s who was a student at Reed, and it was weird even then. It's barely a college. Not as bad as the Evergreen State, though. In any event, please spare us from your beloved kiddo becoming a person who writes sentences such as "my husband and me is flying."

by Anonymousreply 69November 27, 2022 7:10 AM

If you worked hard on your creative writing you might come up with more laughable shit then this drivel

by Anonymousreply 70November 27, 2022 7:16 AM

So your son tells you about his sex life with his “top” bf? And the family speaks with a mid-Atlantic accent like they’re in a ‘30s movie? Est, est, a thousand times Est!

by Anonymousreply 71November 27, 2022 7:24 AM

Be yourself, OP. If they are worth knowing, they'll find common ground. If they don't try, they can lump it. It's more important that your son in law likes you. Life is too short and if you don't chill, they're going to have to up your meds..

by Anonymousreply 72November 27, 2022 7:34 AM

I think OP is the steath scat troll who has been "dropping" little prizes all over holiday threads this holiday!

Not cool, OP!

by Anonymousreply 73November 27, 2022 7:39 AM

How do you know, looks convincing to me.

by Anonymousreply 74November 27, 2022 7:41 AM

[quote]R14 WASPs don’t go to Reed.

Reed is listed amongst the top ten favored schools in the original Preppie Handbook. Though they do give the caveat, “This is where hippies go.”

by Anonymousreply 75November 27, 2022 7:44 AM

EST

by Anonymousreply 76November 27, 2022 7:51 AM

This troll has one tell (in addition to a unique “writing” style) that always gives him away. This EST is not even up to his usual, mediocre submissions either.

by Anonymousreply 77November 27, 2022 7:52 AM

Pix or it didn't happen!

by Anonymousreply 78November 27, 2022 7:57 AM

You've wathed the Birdcage too much, but thanks for the laughs

by Anonymousreply 79November 27, 2022 8:48 AM

I lived in Portland and never understood the smugness of Reed students. You'd think they were attending an Ivy.

by Anonymousreply 80November 27, 2022 8:50 AM

[quote]their son is out and proud, although he is a top and masc privilege is something we need to talk about in the gay community.

Why don't you talk about it with Muffy and Biff? Seems appropriate.

by Anonymousreply 81November 27, 2022 8:57 AM

OP, here are some helpful tips...

When you meet your son's boyfriend's father you should:

[quote]Move his big hand down to your asscunt and let him start fingering my filth trench and you should moan homosexually as his fingers are inhaled by my craving mancunt.

by Anonymousreply 82November 27, 2022 9:20 AM

I knew this was an Extra Special Tale the minute I saw “Roanoke”. Slink away in shame, OP.

by Anonymousreply 83November 27, 2022 9:22 AM

OP, if you should make any atrocious grammar mistakes like the one in your post:

[quote]My husband and me is flying out to meet them in a few weeks...

You should create a diversion my staring directly at your son's boyfriend's father, dance seductively as your raise your caftan slowly, bend over, and present hole...

by Anonymousreply 84November 27, 2022 9:24 AM

R40, of course Americans have class anxiety. We have social classes, and people notice social class differences - half the thread on DL are about social class, FFS - but, outside the DL, people don't talk overtly about class as much as the Brits. We use euphemisms and proxies, some of which you mentioned.

But if you think a person from the wrong side of the tracks isn't well aware of the non-financial differences between his manners, speech and way of life and those of people in middle-class suburbia (let alone the local gentry), then you're mistaken.

by Anonymousreply 85November 27, 2022 10:13 AM

So now we know who the bottom is, Nervous Nelly.

by Anonymousreply 86November 27, 2022 10:14 AM

Is Reed still there or has it been destroyed a la Evergreen College by excessive wokeness and student demonstrations?

by Anonymousreply 87November 27, 2022 12:15 PM

They, like us, will laugh at your puny cocklet.

by Anonymousreply 88November 27, 2022 12:21 PM

Practice your curtsy. There is no better entree to high society than a perfectly executed curtsy.

by Anonymousreply 89November 27, 2022 3:47 PM

^ Your curtsey would be best executed "sans culottes", of course...

by Anonymousreply 90November 27, 2022 9:11 PM

Someone needs to watch The Birdcage.

by Anonymousreply 91November 27, 2022 9:13 PM

[quote]My husband and me is flying out to meet them in a few weeks

Maybe you should just keep your mouth closed and your legs open...as usual

by Anonymousreply 92November 27, 2022 9:16 PM

How can your son's boyfriend's parents respect you, OP?

...when you're nothing but a dirty WHORE

by Anonymousreply 93November 27, 2022 9:18 PM

Have you serviced your son's boyfriend's cock yet, OP?

by Anonymousreply 94November 27, 2022 9:19 PM

This Birdcage needs cleaning(480 quality).

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by Anonymousreply 95November 27, 2022 9:26 PM

Are all three of your sons bottoms, OP?

by Anonymousreply 96November 27, 2022 9:27 PM

If OP's story is make believe, he/she/them should be a writer. I bought it. If he/she/them is a faker, at least we have something to discuss. At least it's not some loser posting shit about JJ, J hoe, Mandonga, Britfleas, Pariah Scary or Beyond C(unt).

by Anonymousreply 97November 27, 2022 9:36 PM

One word of advice, OP...

"douche"

by Anonymousreply 98November 27, 2022 9:39 PM

Practice holding in the butt binky while curtsying.

by Anonymousreply 99November 27, 2022 9:42 PM

[quote]you simply don't understand how crushing class anxiety can be when meeting WASP aristocracy. I have NOTHING in common with these people, and feel inferior and overmatched just thinking about it.

OP, if you find the judgment of other so "crushing"...

why does sit make your filthy mancunt so wet?

by Anonymousreply 100November 27, 2022 9:43 PM

I wonder why the Dasani water is so often a part of BST's meltdowns?

by Anonymousreply 101November 27, 2022 10:24 PM

R96 Colton and Packer are strict bottom. My youngest, Mackenzie, is too young to top but in his current MS relationship he’s service only.

by Anonymousreply 102November 27, 2022 10:31 PM

Dasani was a nice, added touch. It's specific, as to be believable.

by Anonymousreply 103November 27, 2022 10:33 PM

[quote]Mackenzie, is too young to top but in his current MS relationship he’s service only.

What exactly is an "MS relationship"?

by Anonymousreply 104November 27, 2022 10:35 PM

Multiple sclerosis

by Anonymousreply 105November 27, 2022 10:38 PM

R104 Middle School

by Anonymousreply 106November 27, 2022 10:39 PM

Yes what is this MS? While we're asking, what is a rolling brown out? What is a Peppermint Patty?

by Anonymousreply 107November 27, 2022 10:39 PM

I just hope Mackenzie doesn't break your heart by becoming a Top...or worse yet, a straight!

by Anonymousreply 108November 27, 2022 10:43 PM

OP, how do you manage to keep you cunt so hungry for dick?

Does your husbear cage your little clit?

Drugs?

by Anonymousreply 109November 27, 2022 10:44 PM

Because your sons are adopted, did they all inherit your puny cocklet...or are you embarrassed by their size?

by Anonymousreply 110November 27, 2022 10:46 PM

OP, maybe you could arrange to meet them in a place where you'd feel more comfortable...

on your back, taking cocks, in a bath house...

by Anonymousreply 111November 27, 2022 10:49 PM

[quote]My husband and me is flying out to meet them

I'm sorry, I could read beyond that.

And now I have PTSD.

by Anonymousreply 112November 27, 2022 10:58 PM

You must know Reed draws a different breed of students. Most parents would not send their kids there; they are afraid their sons and daughters would be indoctrinated into the woke culture. The boyfriend's son has parents who are just as open-minded about Reed as you are.

So you may be pleasantly surprised. Who knows, they might be nudists. I've hiked in the Blue Ridge. I've encountered nude hikers along the way.

You are making a mountain out of a molehill. You might leave a negative impression because they are the laid-back kind and you appear prickly. Get over it and have a nice visit.

by Anonymousreply 113November 27, 2022 11:04 PM

Just relax and be yourself with them...

Tell them all about how you and your son got into a competition to sleep with the most men on your trip to Reed...

Tell them about your dildo collection or how you can shoot cum from your fagcunt...

by Anonymousreply 114November 28, 2022 8:36 AM
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