with your sisters is having a sex talk with your sisters AND your boyfriend's parents. No, I'm not kidding.
We all wound up home by like 10 tonight and Alex asked us to stay in so Danielle suggested we watch a movie. Fine. So we were watching this movie where these midwestern high school kids are playing spin the bottle and talking about the first place they ever gave someone a blow job and one girl says her first place was at a spin the bottle party.
This leads Josh's mom to ask if that really happens at parties. I avoided answering by pretending that she was asking my sisters and not me. Danielle kind of smirks and when our eyes meet we start giggling. Josh's dad is all "what?" Dani and I are like "We don't bother with like the pretense of a game. If people want to hook up they just do."
Josh's parents look horrified and I wonder if maybe jewish people are more conservative than italians or something. I was kind of feeling like they thought the three of us were slutty then. Maybe Josh and his sister never told their parents anything. I wished he was here for the trillionth time.
The best part is when Alex tries to join in by saying at all the parties she's been to, nobody bothers playing games either. Dani won't let her get away with it. "You mean all TWO?"
Later, after they went to get ready for bed, Josh's father asks if I'm alarmed or upset that Alex has gone to parties where people have hooked up. No. "But she's 11." First off, she's 11 and a half. Second, she's going into eighth grade! We just moved out of a building where sixth graders had babies.
We have even more awkwardness when they ask me what Alex thinks about girls her age having babies. I got kind of annoyed then. She doesn't think anything - this is not some new anomaly that is strange and horrifying. It's what she has grown up seeing.
So I told them she doesn't think anything and lie and say I'm tired and go hide in my room. Thinking I'm over the whole parental involvement thing. Talking to your boyfriend's parents about sex when you're having sex with their son is just way too much.
Danielle is sleeping with me tonight because she misses me. I miss her too. It is weird to go to bed and not have anyone to whisper to anymore.
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It's not them being Jewish...in a health family with parents that healthy interest in their children, they will be horrified to find out girls Alex's age are pregnant. Don't get too upset with them. If they ask about it again, give them the opportunity to be parents. It's how they view you and probably are trying to use every moment they can find to parent what little childhoos is left.
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