How to handle family criticizing my weight for the wedding
Family members often make hurtful comments about your weight and physical appearance during wedding planning. Setting a direct boundary against negative remarks stops the painful body shaming from ruining your special day.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Laughing it offDid this help you?
- 2Excluding family members from dress shoppingDid this help you?
- 3Setting clear boundaries and threatening to block communicationDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My mom literally called my phone asking “did you eat that whole pizza? You have a wedding dress to fit into”.”source ↗
“Please do not make negative comments about my physical appearance as that really hurts me”source ↗
Where this came up
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- 11How to stop stressing about your weight and looks before the wedding