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"Blech. Save the Date reader Sarah has some people in her life who need a smackdown. Writes Sarah: My boyfriend and I have talked about getting married and I have a general idea of when he may propose, but I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know exactly when it&amp;amp;#8217;s coming. I feel like my plans for the future and when I may be engaged are things I would only share with my very closest friends. However, we both have a number of people in our lives who seem to think they deserve to be the first to know! Some people asked if he &amp;amp;#8220;had a talk with my dad&amp;amp;#8221; when we went home for Christmas. Others wanted to know if I would be getting a shiny ring for Valentine&amp;amp;#8217;s Day or have just straight-up asked when we&amp;amp;#8217;ll be getting married. I never know what to say! What I would like to tell them is to stay out of my business&amp;amp;#8212;with a choice expletive thrown in. If it were close friends it wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t seem so bad, but often it&amp;amp;#8217;s casual friends or even acquaintances&amp;amp;#8212;people I would never consider confiding in! Since I won&amp;amp;#8217;t yell at them, I need some appropriate responses (nice or sarcastic!). Help! Here are my thoughts: In a word: Ew. People can be so annoying. Thankfully, Rory I and didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have to deal with this, since we got engaged pretty quickly. What we did have to deal with&amp;amp;#8212;almost as soon as we did get engaged&amp;amp;#8212;&amp;amp;#8220;So when do you think you&amp;amp;#8217;ll have kids?&amp;amp;#8221; Double ew. My standard response: &amp;amp;#8220;When people stop asking.&amp;amp;#8221; You could also brush off their question, then turn around and ask something that makes them squirm: &amp;amp;#8220;I dunno. When are you going to get your roots touched up/lose the baby weight/stop dating that deadbeat dad?&amp;amp;#8221; Either of those, followed by a quick turn-on-your-heel-and-exit, should get your point across. Readers, I suspect you&amp;amp;#8217;ll have some good responses that Sarah can tuck up her sleeve. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s hear &amp;amp;#8217;em! Is anyone else feeling pressure to get engaged? Or have kids? Does it make you want to punch something&amp;amp;#8212;or someone&amp;amp;#8212;too? More reader&amp;amp;#8217;s dilemmas, solved! * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! I Want to Ask a Friend to Be My Maid of Honor&amp;amp;#8212;But Her Husband Just Asked Her for a Divorce!&amp;amp;#8221; * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! We&amp;amp;#8217;re Getting Gifts Before Our Wedding! Can We Use Them Yet?&amp;amp;#8221; * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! How Can I Be a Long-Distance Maid of Honor?&amp;amp;#8221; More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Jupiter Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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