{"id":49096,"date":"2025-09-28T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49096\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:09:14","slug":"dear-mary-my-son-has-announced-his-brazen-and-sweary-girlfriend-is-pregnant-and-i-am-dreading-her-being-part-of-our-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49096\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mary: My son has announced his brazen and sweary girlfriend is pregnant, and I am dreading her being part of our family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Every single family dinner is turned into a warzone.&quot; Image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mg getty angry.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;Every single family dinner is turned into a warzone.&#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: I am feeling wretched after my son announced that his girlfriend is pregnant. I have never been fond of this girl, who is brazen and sweary. In fact, I don\u2019t think she can utter a sentence without swearing.<\/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)\">She dresses like a glorified roadie and has tattoos on both her arms. She works in a creative industry and I have been told that tattoos are accepted in that culture, and her colleagues are similarly \u2018inked\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Every single family dinner is turned into a warzone.&#8221; Image: Getty Question: I am feeling wretched after my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,35746],"class_list":{"0":"post-49096","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\/49096","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=49096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}