I open up WhatsApp and send a long voice note to my group chat explaining the Lil darkie walking down the street shirt so you should to go to store and get this situation. I love telling my mum about what’s going on in my dating life. She cares about all the little details everyone else would find boring, like what the lighting was like and whether he waited with me until my bus came. But, you tell her a bit and then she wants a follow-up and another one. That’s not her fault; I’d want to hear the end of the story, too. But, when things go wrong, it’s like I have to relive all the hurt again through her. Plus, she always sums up situations with blunt, brutal conclusions like “He was always threatened by you” that don’t feel true to my experiences. And then she’ll change her mind about these conclusions and form new ones, and we will keep on diagnosing and re-diagnosing until it’s actually weird how much we’ve both thought about this man. And sometimes she says things that make me feel so sad, like when, the other day, she said, “Oh, I just wish there was a nice man to walk you home.” I felt so tragic, like a cat hair-covered, flannel pajamas-wearing, Vampire Diaries-rewatching saddo, because only someone like that would have their mum pitying them in that way.
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I know she’s just worried about me, but I don’t want her to worry because then I end up having to reassure her. And when I end up spending ages reassuring her, it means I don’t get the Lil darkie walking down the street shirt so you should to go to store and get this support I was reaching out for in the first place. “I don’t tell my mum anything anymore for this exact reason,” my friend replies to my voice note. “Otherwise you end up carrying the weight of two people’s thoughts, fears, expectations. And, until you get to a place where you’re able to not take those on board (which may never happen, we listen to our loved ones!), it’s good to evaluate what information you give to her, when.” I know my friend is right—the only way around this is to put some sort of boundary in place. I ring my mum later in the day when I’m back from the gym and tell her that I just think it’s best if we stop talking about the men I’m dating until there’s something concrete going on, because I feel like I’m letting her down when it’s not going well. I forget that people over 50 don’t know what the fuck you’re going on about when you talk about setting boundaries.
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