Dear Queenie,
My parents don’t hang up family pictures because they don’t want to make holes in their walls. I thought they might make an exception for my wedding photo, but no, they didn’t. It’s not as if they had the pictures displayed on a table or shelf somewhere but they don’t.
Queenie, don’t I have a right to feel hurt that they care more about their walls than they do about me?—Offended bridegroom
Dear Bridegroom,
I doubt your parents care more about their walls than they do about you. Some people prefer to keep such visual reminders of the people and events that matter most to them in albums that they can take out whenever they want to “walk down Memory Lane.” Others do not need visual reminders – they carry the pictures around with them constantly in their minds.
However, if hanging up this photo means so much to you, buy some “self-stick” picture hooks that go up without making any holes in the wall, give them to your parents and ask them to indulge your feelings by using one of those hooks to put up the wedding photo.
