My cousin in the Marines is dating an Indian lady. Her parents are mad because he’s a Christian (but like him otherwise) and his mom is mad because she’s Hindu. His dad is just thrilled his son likes women and that he found one that likes him back lmao.
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Dads and dad jokes are national treasures 
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Ah cool. Sounds like you aren’t actually observing anything among 40 year old women like you originally claimed. That is what I suspected.
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Exactly. Loving, consistent parents create the best likelihood of marital success in their children, whether through the rearing of them to value themselves and look for someone who does the same, or through arranged marriages. Doesn’t matter which if you have a good foundation. Kids with parents who model healthy relationships have better odds than kids who don’t.
The women’s movement was in part a backlash against traditional relationship models, because those models left many women enduring abusive or demeaning relationships without recourse and offered the unattractive, unwanted girls a lifetime of impoverishment. Because not all of them were bright enough to be an old maid teacher or nurse.
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This sounds like my family growing up. My father was military and was either on ships or in the field on exercise quite frequently. When he was gone, we all breathed freely. He wasn’t abusive but was stressful to be around. My mom once compared it to Pat Conroy’s "The Great Santini’.
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My dad’s still the unofficial head of the household even though he lives off me. My wife senses that since she’s an evil, manipulative, privileged woman. Every weekend when we go to my parents’ house to visit, she’ll take the chance to get him to command me to do stuff because women don’t respect the chain of command.
She’ll tell him something like, “Dad! dt79 keeps playing angry music at home! It’s horrible and noisy! I’m afraid the neighbours will start complaining!” because she has no taste in music. Only a woman will say that about Judas Priest. Then dad will rail at me," You’re almost 40 and you’re still listening to that SATANIC nonsense!" and I’ll cower in fear just like I did when I was a kid while she avoids making eye contact with a self-satisfied smirk on her face.
Women are Evil. Pure evil.
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I’m sorry … my dad and I worship Satan as a family - we’re going to see Maiden for the 3rd time together this summer … last time was with Ghost … how much more Satanic can you get than that?
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My dad likes Madonna. Vogue is his favorite album.
Cool nothing. What does this have to do with me still seeing 40 year olds out there saying “won’t settle”
Just a few min ago I cracked a convo on the treadmill with the girl next to me saying she’ll want kids someday… she’s like 35! Someday when honey? lol
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Because by your own admission, you don’t.
you’re 22. we all know you’re 22. Give up the lie.
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I don’t know about that. I obviously come from the most literal oldest traditional society that exists today (or darn close to it – Orthodox Jewish).
There are certainly sects of Judaism that are wacko and that don’t let the kids have much say in the marriage process – but that’s not the norm, even among Orthodox.
Again, the norm is literally analog Match.com. You get prospective dates, the participants agree or don’t agree (probably 75% rejection either way), and then you date very frumly – and probably 1/3 of those dating processes end in engagement.
No one is sold or forced to do anything you don’t want to do.
Seemed to have worked well for my oldest daughters, so far. Of course, they are all professional women and combat trained killers. So it would take someone really stupid to try to oppress them.
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Ironically, if he’s actually 40 there’s no better place on this Earth he belongs than this thread.
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The part I find funny is the “women from South America…” shtick . I know people aren’t cookie cut, but the three women I’ve known from Chile were like raccoons except that instead of knocking over garbage cans, they dig through wallets, their husband’s friends, and green card applications.
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This makes my heart happy. I would make an emoticon about it, but I don’t like how large they are.
lol
yeah because this thread is truly something
I’m seeing Judas Priest in May! \m/ 
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In had an Honduran roommate in College for a bit and hung out with her social circle (affluent kids in the States to pick up English along with an education) and I also worked at a high school in inner-city Austin, TX, and the Latinas in both cases were pretty aggressive. In neither case would a pretty girl of intelligence settle for a third-rate guy. But the girls I’ve known weren’t starving and in need of meal tickets, which may have made a big difference. Hunger compels!
Well that’s kinda the point. By now this is just a place for tnationers to come and pick on the local loon. There’s almost always a thread like this (rip Zep)
And on the flip side, you get to vent without it being an account linked to your name.
Some of the local loons have had some plausible sentiments, beliefs, observations and outlooks. I’m surprised few or maybe even no one here can consider them or empathize with the supposed loons.