{"id":311653,"date":"2026-02-22T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311653\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:05:09","slug":"dear-mary-my-lifelong-friend-has-decorated-his-home-like-my-parents-house-and-i-find-it-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311653\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mary: My lifelong friend has decorated his home like my parents\u2019 house and I find it disturbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;I was sitting on their sofa when I realised how much it reminded me of my parents\u2019 sofa. And when I had a good look around, I realised how many things in the house reminded me of my parents\u2019 house.&quot; Image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9dd268f7-9c58-44d9-8ff9-493e914dbcaf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;I was sitting on their sofa when I realised how much it reminded me of my parents\u2019 sofa. And when I had a good look around, I realised how many things in the house reminded me of my parents\u2019 house.&#8221; Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Question: My best friend growing up came from a poor family. We were both into music way before our peers \u2013 this bonded us early on and we stayed friends when we went to secondary school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He spent a huge amount of time in my family home and was always welcome. My parents included him in the dinner pot and for some reason never minded the loud music \u2013 as a parent myself now, I\u2019m not sure I would be as tolerant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was sitting on their sofa when I realised how much it reminded me of my parents\u2019 sofa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,35746],"class_list":{"0":"post-311653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-life-magazine","12":"tag-mary-oconor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}