Love: Panic! At the high tea

Panic! At the high tea

By Anonymous - 01/11/2013 01:11 - United States - Vancouver

Today, while researching tea etiquette for Sunday's tea, I read, "To put milk in your tea before sugar is to cross the path of love, perhaps never to marry." I suddenly panicked that this very lack of knowledge is why I haven't met a man who wants to marry me, and that I never will. I'm only 23. FML

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By firstdategonebad - 12/10/2012 18:43 - Canada - Toronto

Today, I went on a coffee date with the man I've been in love with for a while. Before I knew what was going on, he'd started chatting up a pretty girl sitting nearby. I had to drink my coffee alone while he got her number. FML

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Is it me?

By Jules - 12/06/2024 08:00 - United States

Today, I once again have to attend a family gathering and never hear the end of, “Julie, you’re 33 and you still haven’t found a man?” What they don’t understand is that every time I pour my heart out to a guy, I always get the ladder kicked out from under me. As a result, I can’t get close to anyone anymore. FML

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Bien joué

By ChelseaGirl - 22/08/2024 16:00 - France - Nice

Today, I'm in the south of France and I was trying to impress a cute date at a coffee shop by ordering in what I thought was perfect French. He gave me a weird look, and the barista looked confused. Turns out, instead of ordering a "latte," I asked for "lait," which is just milk. I sat there awkwardly, sipping my cup of cold milk while he watched. FML

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Run for the hills

By fuck this shiit! - 15/06/2022 02:00

Today, I found out why my fiancé waited for me to meet his family. We had dinner at their place, the women were not permitted to talk while the men were in the room, also no eye contact with the men, and we had to eat separately. He says he wants me to learn to be a good and decent wife from them. FML

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By I guess not - 02/08/2016 13:24

Today, my boyfriend of three years asked me if I ever wanted to get married. I said yes. He said, 'But what happens if you never find a guy who likes you that much?' FML

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Moving on

By Anonymous - 17/10/2020 23:02 - United States - Pittsburgh

Today, I saw yet another dear friend from uni get married, living the good life in their new home. Here am I in my 30s, with no love life, and feeling like that's never going to be for me. FML

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Daydreamer

By petev8 - 06/03/2023 03:00

Today, I found myself watching Masterchef UK and was excited because there was an attractive female contestant. I then went on to imagine us getting married and being together forever. Man I am lonely, but more importantly need to get out more. FML

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Mommy's boy

By Anonymous - 11/10/2019 16:00

Today, I found out that in the past, my mother has paid or outright threatened my girlfriends into breaking up with me, because they were, "unsuitable trash not fit to be the mothers of my future grand babies." This explains why I’m 47 and have never married or had children. FML

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Traditional

By sorry - 26/04/2022 02:00

Today, my 97 year-old grandmother told me that if I’m not married and pregnant by the time she goes, I’ll be completely excluded from her will. She went on to say how shameful it is for a woman my age to be single, choosing college over a family. I’m 21 and studying to be an oncologist. FML

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Projection

By killmenow - 14/06/2022 06:00

Today, after crying after remembering how horribly wrong it went, 10 years ago, with the only person I was ever able to trust enough to let them get close to me, and how no amount of therapy seems to help me, I read an FML about how nobody wants to date a 30 year-old who has never dated. I'm 29 and might as well give up. FML

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AnOriginalName 19

Friday 1 November 2013 8:26

Wow. I always put my sugar in my coffee before the milk, even before reading this. Maybe I'm a natural-born lover? Still wouldn't explain why I'm single, though.

tehdarkness 21

Friday 1 November 2013 8:26

An even better reason to do sugar first is that the higher the temperature of the tea, the better the sugar will dissolve. Milk will cool it down a bit.

Comments

littlem91 29

Friday 1 November 2013 8:48

Yikes, at 23 you're practically an old maid! Your poor parents, unable to marry you off. Oh dear.

worldclassrager 39

Friday 1 November 2013 8:57

It's just superstition or a ritual it means nothing...you are still very young and that person is out there looking for you....

tulha 12

Friday 1 November 2013 8:58

Shit happens, OP. Don't worry too much, you're only 23 :)

lilacgold 16

Friday 1 November 2013 9:00

I don't even take sugar, and I'm happily married. And my husband adds his sugar last. Don't worry about it!

TheAbstract 15

Friday 1 November 2013 9:05

^Does this guy know how to party, or what?

SaturnV 25

Friday 1 November 2013 9:06

You might consider bypassing the milk and sugar etiquette entirely and try your tea with lemon (a Russian custom). Unsweetened with lemon is my personal preference, but lemon + honey is a popular combination as well.

toxxickittyy 19

Friday 1 November 2013 9:29

Theres so many weird FML's today but I believe this is the strangest. I've never heard of that, but it is something I also do and I'm married, you just have to keep your head in the game OP.