Fandom in general has a silly view on many things related to marriage-- "Five year age gap? GROSS! First cousins getting married? INCEST NO WAY!!!"
Which is kind of funny, but I look at it quite like the real world even today: even now there are arranged marriages going on
Indeed. Hell, one of my husband's best friends is a native of India. His wife, a very sweet lady, was selected for him by his parents. It took some getting used to for both of them (imagine getting to know your husband and a foreign country... at once), but they seem to be doing very well. I also have an acquaintance with a mail-order bride from Ukraine. They've lasted a few years now-- and she's a smart, articulate, educated woman, not a teenager sold off by her parents for the vodka money or anything like that.
And my parents had known one another for all of two weeks when they married, with the desire to move out of Army barracks and into couples housing being a STRONG factor. They're still together.
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Date: 2011-09-28 01:17 am (UTC)Which is kind of funny, but I look at it quite like the real world even today: even now there are arranged marriages going on
Indeed. Hell, one of my husband's best friends is a native of India. His wife, a very sweet lady, was selected for him by his parents. It took some getting used to for both of them (imagine getting to know your husband and a foreign country... at once), but they seem to be doing very well. I also have an acquaintance with a mail-order bride from Ukraine. They've lasted a few years now-- and she's a smart, articulate, educated woman, not a teenager sold off by her parents for the vodka money or anything like that.
And my parents had known one another for all of two weeks when they married, with the desire to move out of Army barracks and into couples housing being a STRONG factor. They're still together.