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

Started by jimmy olsen, October 30, 2013, 12:36:09 AM

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

Yes, with regards to both personal compatibility and wealth/familial alliances.
11 (25%)
Only in regards to wealth/familial alliances.
7 (15.9%)
Only in regards to personal compatibility.
0 (0%)
Not at all
24 (54.5%)
My parents actually aranged my marriage! (Tell us how it went!)
2 (4.5%)

Total Members Voted: 43

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Eddie Teach

#90
October 31, 2013, 08:13:51 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 31, 2013, 08:04:15 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 31, 2013, 07:45:43 PM
Surely those two people claiming to actually be in arranged marriages are trolling.
Don't we have people of Indian descent on this board?

Don't think Blade! ever came here.

Lots of white dudes married to Asians though.
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MadImmortalMan

#91
October 31, 2013, 08:28:55 PM
Mom would have picked a fat dependent christian fundamentalist who wanted one kid for every time we have sex. So no.

:lol:
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jimmy olsen

#92
October 31, 2013, 09:04:15 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 31, 2013, 08:28:55 PM
Mom would have picked a fat dependent christian fundamentalist who wanted one kid for every time we have sex. So no.

:lol:
She couldn't get the other traits without the fat?

Valmy, how about Siege as one of those two?
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Scipio

#93
November 01, 2013, 01:35:33 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 30, 2013, 09:23:54 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 30, 2013, 01:12:27 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 30, 2013, 01:09:32 AM
Oh, hell no.  Mom would've picked someone just like Mom.  Fuck that noise.
Aren't you a big Momma's boy though? :yeahright:

Why would I be a "big Momma's boy"?
Black Irish, lots of cats, BDSM history, lives in fucking Baltimore, goes to Towson. Former cop. I.E., momma's boy.
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Scipio

#94
November 01, 2013, 01:37:05 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 30, 2013, 01:04:10 PM
All the guys I know who had arranged marriages (within the Sihk community) are all still happily married (although admittedly the sample size is small).  Over half the guys I know who married for love are now divorced - some of them multiple times.

Given divorce rates in Western countries where most people make their own choice and marry for love it seems that if live long marriage is the measure of success then arranged marriages have merit.

Having said all that, there is no way in hell I would have trust my parent's judgment.
My wife and I married because she told me to, and that's just how it fucking is.
What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
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There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.
-Every cop, The Wire

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DontSayBanana

#95
November 01, 2013, 02:44:41 AM
Quote from: Malthus on October 30, 2013, 12:53:40 PM
$10 an hour?  Hilarious.   :unsure:

Yuk it up, but this "bohemian" hasn't even hit $10 an hour yet. <_<
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CountDeMoney

#96
November 01, 2013, 09:54:35 AM
Quote from: Scipio on November 01, 2013, 01:35:33 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 30, 2013, 09:23:54 AM
Why would I be a "big Momma's boy"?

Black Irish, lots of cats, BDSM history, lives in fucking Baltimore, goes to Towson. Former cop. I.E., momma's boy.

Ah yes, straight out of the Central Casting guidelines.

Malthus

#97
November 01, 2013, 01:14:51 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on November 01, 2013, 02:44:41 AM
Quote from: Malthus on October 30, 2013, 12:53:40 PM
$10 an hour?  Hilarious.   :unsure:

Yuk it up, but this "bohemian" hasn't even hit $10 an hour yet. <_<

I wasn't the one laughing.  :mellow:

To be clear, I never said $10 per hour was crappy pay. It wasn't. It was pretty good pay, for that occupation at that time.

What I was complaining about was the "pay" I got when I left that job to start my own business.   ;)
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