Posted on 03/27/2018 6:18:53 AM PDT by C19fan
The marriage proposal is one of the most ritualized moments in modern American life. Growing up, many girls are instilled with a specific idea of how it should go: He’ll take us somewhere romantic—we’ll have no idea what’s happening—he’ll get down on one knee—we’ll start crying—he’ll pop the question—we’ll immediately say yes. It should be magical.
But for a lot of heterosexual couples, the proposal—as movies portray it, as many millennial women have internalized it—doesn’t reflect the kind of modern, egalitarian relationships many women want today. Whom to marry is among the most important decisions most people will ever make in their lives, and yet it’s not a choice made in the course of a conversation—the normal way two grown humans make big life decisions. Instead, it has to be a show, with a prefixed grand finale: “yes.”
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My family and I were very involved in nursing home ministries in New York City back in the 90’s. What you said about alone and dying in a nursing home could not be more true.
My young children walking among them and talking to them was, and I know how to use this word, literally a life giving moment for the residents. Eyes would start to shine, voices would start to be used, and people who had not moved from a wheelchair in months would find the strength to go to where the kids were.
Progressives slime everything they touch.
Everything.
Best advise is to send everything they think, say and write through an inverter.
I proposed over the phone.
My romantic skills have improved. But I sure set the bar low. I’ve exceeded that every day since.
And don’t forget Miss Havisham’s boyfriend refusing to honor his proposal!
Attention men: If you find a woman who wants a "modern, egalitarian relationship"; do yourself a favor and DON'T pop the question.
The author speaks for a whole generation of current and future crazy cat ladies.
Unfortunately Prince Harry is going to learn that lesson the hard way.
My one regret is that I didn’t do so. We’ e been married 33 years and I just realized it when my daughters’ fiancés asked me. Looking back, it was arrogant and thoughtless of me.
lol.
Nowadays you would not do that. You would send her a text.
Caroline Kitchener
bump
lol
He didn’t dodge a tiny guitar. But he DID dodge a bullet.
Try the brilliant David Lean version. Of course, your boy probably doesn’t like black and white. Most kids don’t.
“Sounds like SOMEbody is upset about not being proposed to.”......
You don’t have to ask yourself “why” she hasen’t been asked, it’s pretty obvious..
This is how it’s done, biytch. The man pays for dates, opens doors, protects the woman, proposes, earns money to support his family.
Must have been SOME diamond.
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