Would you have trusted your parents to make an arranged marriage for you?

[Josquius]

I don't even let my parents know about girls I'm seeing let alone arranging a marriage.
They're from a different planet to me. They don't understand how the world beyond my hometown works. I don't want to marry someone from around there so no way.

[Ideologue]

I'd let Josq's parent arrange a marriage for me.  I might get a coal miner's daughter, and I've got a bit of a thing for 'em.

[Admiral Yi]

Hells no. 

Of all the people who've ever pimped me out, only my sister has ever done a decent job.

[dps]

I didn't trust my stepfather to have my best interests at heart on anything, and I don't trust my mom's judgment on almost anything, so no way.

[merithyn]

My parents would have picked someone that they liked rather than someone that I would like. Mostly because they had so little understanding of who I've become as a person, so they'd pick someone that they liked and hope that it was good enough for me.

So, in a word, no.

[Grey Fox]

My parents couldn't even pick a good match for themselves, so no I would not have trusted them.

[sbr]

They couldn't have done much worse than I did. Also maybe they would have had the sense to not let me try to get back together with my ex.

[Admiral Yi]

They couldn't have done much worse than I did.

[garbon]

I've been lobbying for my mother to play matchmaker.

edit: I understand the poll now...and I don't even know who I am personally compatible with so, I guess choice 2.

[Malthus]

My parents would have picked a wealthy and well-connected woman I would almost certainly have disliked. So option 2.

[PDH]

Given that the question posits being raised in a society where that was the norm, of course.  It would be natural for me.  Of course, I wouldn't be me either since my I would come from generations of such marriages - at least on Mom's side that would be 5 generations different (Mom's great great grandfather took a steamship back to Scotland to negotiate for a fair lady to marry).

[CountDeMoney]

Oh, hell no.  Mom would've picked someone just like Mom.  Fuck that noise.

Aren't you a big Momma's boy though?

Why would I be a "big Momma's boy"?

[derspiess]

My parents' friends & dad's business contacts always had some pretty hott daughters, so I think it probably would have turned out okay-- for me.

[Maximus]

Given that the question posits being raised in a society where that was the norm, of course.  It would be natural for me.

People can go against social norms.

[garbon]

Given that the question posits being raised in a society where that was the norm, of course.  It would be natural for me.

People can go against social norms.

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